Rait Kerr was born in Bray, Ireland and led a distinguished army career. He graduated from Sandhurst in 1910 and joined the Royal Engineers. By 1916 he had been promoted to temporary captain, by 1917 he was acting major and had been awarded the Military Cross. As a cricketer, he played in six first-class matches. Five of these were for the Europeans in India between 1913–14 and 1920–21, while the other came after a decade's absence from first-class cricket when he appeared for the Army against Oxford University in 1931. Colonel Rait Kerr died at Constantine Bay in Cornwall, aged 69.