Name
Albert John Carter
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/01/1917
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
1805
London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles)
1st/16th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LAVENTIE MILITARY CEMETERY, LA GORGUE
III. E. 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 8 Dec 1896 in South Africa son of John Thomas and Elizabeth Martha Carter later of Umtali, Rhodesia.
Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1905-12.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Westminster, he entered France on 1 Nov 1914 and was invalided home in Sep 1915 because of an ear problem which subsequently made him deaf on one side. He returned to the front in Dec 1916 and was killed in his trench by a shell.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association