BORN CURRY, COUNTY SLIGO 1881. SON OF PATRICK KERINS (1829-1904) AND CATHERINE ROGERS (1842-1923). ON OF TEN CHILDREN.
HE ENLISTED & LIVED IN HULL. HE MARRIED BRIDGET DUNN (1879-1940), AT SCULCOATES, HULL, IN JULY 1906. HIS WIFE BRIDGET, TWO SONS AND DAUGHTER, LIVED AT 11 ST PAULS CRESCENT, ST MARKS STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HE WAS EMPLOYED AS AN ELECTRIC CAR DRIVER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A BOMBARDIER IN THE ROYAL FILED ARTILLERY. KILLED IN ACTION, AT ARRAS, ON 21/04/1917, AGED 35. BURIED IN FRANCE (Plot 6 Row P Grave 27 in Bucquoy Road Cemetery, Ficheux)
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED LOCALLY. HIS SURNAME SPELT KERINE IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 30/05/1917.