Name
Ernest F Carter
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Grenadier Guards
3rd
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Pirton School Memorial
Biography
Ernest appears on the School War Memorial, confirming that he attended the school. He is recorded twice: in the Parish Magazine of September 1914 as being in the Army Reserve, and then in the Parish Magazine of 1915, as enlisting during September 1915 before August and serving in the 3rd Grenadier Guards.
Parish and census records suggest two:
The first man was born on May 5th 1900 to George and Kate Ethel Carter and so he would have been fourteen at the outbreak of war, and only fifteen at the date of enlistment. He is therefore unlikely to be the right man. Baptism records list two children: Ernest (b 1900) and Arthur George (b 1898).
The second was the son of Charles and Eliza Carter. Charles had been the village policeman and then the School Attendance Officer. Ernest was born circa 1880, and so he would have been about thirty-four at the outbreak of war. He was born in Datchworth, Hertfordshire and census records show that he is the elder brother of a Walter Carter who also served and survived. This is likely to be the correct man. In all it would appear that four brothers served and survived - refer to Alfred Carter for more family details.
Acknowledgments
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission
