| Regimental number | 1081 |
| Place of birth | Williamstown, Victoria |
| School | State School, King Street, West Melbourne, Victoria |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Occupation | Clerk |
| Address | 531 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne, Victoria |
| Marital status | Married |
| Age at embarkation | 22 |
| Height | 5' 7" |
| Weight | 164 lbs |
| Next of kin | Wife, Mrs Lilian Carter, 531 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne, Victoria |
| Previous military service | Nil |
| Enlistment date | |
| Place of enlistment | Melbourne, Victoria |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 29th Battalion, D Company |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/46/1 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A11 Ascanius on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Sergeant |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 29th Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Place of death or wounding | Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium |
| Age at death | 24 |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 24 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 23), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 115 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Herbert and Louisa CARTER, 531 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne; Wife: Mrs L.A. CARTER. Father requested the following epitaph: 'A Faithful and affectionate Husband. A Loving Father'. |
| Other details |
War service: Egypt, Western Front Disembarked Suez, 7 December 1915. Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 16 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 23 June 1916. Appointed Lance Corporal, 5 August 1916. Detached to 5th Divisional School of Instruction, 18 August 1916. Promoted Temporary Corporal, 15 October 1916; Corporal, 26 October 1916. Admitted to 1st New Zealand Stationary Hospital while attending Instructional School, 13 February 1917 (scabies); discharged to duty, 20 February 1917. Rejoined Bn from Instructional School, 1 May 1917. Promoted Sergeant, 31 July 1917. On leave, 18 August-2 September 1917. Killed in action, 26-27 September 1917. Buried 'in the vicinity of Polygon Wood, Ypres': grave subsequently lost/destroyed. Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal |
| Miscellaneous details | Daughter, Jean Lillian, born after father's embarkation. |
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Canberra BC 2610, Australia
Street Address:
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