Name
Frederick Carter
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
588535
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Frederick Carter was listed for the first time in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in October 1914, and was shown serving with the Herts Territorials. It was likely that he was a member of the Territorial Army before the Great War and at the outbreak of War would have been mobilised. The National Roll of the Great War noted that he volunteered in August 1914, and the following year was drafted to the Western Front. The Parish Magazine recorded that he was wounded, in the June 1915 edition. The National Roll indicated that he took part in numerous engagements including those at Hill 60, Ypres, Arras, Passchendaele, Cambrai, and St Quentin, and was wounded another three times. The Parish Magazine recorded one of these incidents in June 1917.
Eventually Frederick was Discharged Disabled, and he returned home and joined the Labour Corps with the rank of Private on 18th September 1918. The Parish Magazine reported that he had been discharged in the following month’s Roll of Honour. He was recorded in the Autumn 1918 and Spring 1919 Absent Voter Records, and shown serving with the Eastern Command Labour Corps. His address was given at 28 Adrian Road, Abbots Langley. He was eventually discharged as being medically unfit in February 1919, and was recorded in the National Roll of Honour returning to 25 Breakspeare Road, Abbots Langley.
Frederick was born on 25th February 1897 at Abbots Langley. In the 1901 Census his mother Maria Carter was listed at a property near to Rose Cottage in Asylum Road. Her husband William Carter, a Blacksmith, had died before Frederick was christened in March 1900. Maria and William had four sons and four daughters, and after her husband’s death, Maria was left to bring up the children. In the 1911 Census, the family was recorded living at 78 Marlin Square Abbots Langley. Frederick was listed as a Factory Worker at Paper Mills.
In February 1919 Frederick’s sister Jessie married Edward Duckett, a Sergeant Instructor serving with the 13th Battalion of the London Regiment – the “Kensington’s”.
Frederick Carter survived the War, as did his brother in law Edward Duckett.
Additional Information
Discharged Disabled
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
