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Surname: CARTER
Forename(s): Ernest Edward
Place of Birth: Skipton, Yorkshire
Service No: 204955
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Northumberland Fusiliers
Battalion / Unit: 1st Battalion
Division: 3rd Division
Age: 19
Date of Death: 1918-03-27
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: VIII. D. 16.
CWGC Cemetery: WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: SKIPTON – ERMYSTED’S GRAMMAR SCHOOL, YORKSHIRE
Local War Memorial: SKIPTON, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Ernest Edward Carter was the son of Edward Henry and Lucy Jane Carter, née Senior. Edward was born at Derby, Derbyshire and Lucy at Cumberworth, Yorkshire.
1901 Skipton, Yorkshire Census: 46, Russell Street - Ernest E. Carter, aged 2 years, born Skipton, son of Edward Henry and Lucy Jane Carter.
1911 Skipton, Yorkshire Census: 5, Neville Street - Ernest Edward Carter, aged 12 years, born Skipton, son of Edward Henry and Lucy Jane Carter.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Ernest E. Carter, 204955, North'd Fus. D. of W.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Ernest Edward Carter, 204955, 1st North'd Fus. D. of Wds.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Ernest Edward Carter, 204955, 1st Bn North'd Fus. Date and Place of Death: 27.3.18. France. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Father - Edward H. £8 3s. 3d.
UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: Pte E. E. Carter, 204955, 2/4th North. Fus. Date and cause of death: 27.3.18 killed in action. Name(s) on card(s): Dependant: Mrs Lucy J. Carter. Relationship: Mother. Address: 5, Neville Street, Skipton, Yorks.
A short biography of Ernest is included in: ‘A Grammar School at War – The Story of Ermysted’s Grammar School during the Great War’ by Steven Howarth (2007).
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
CARTER, Ernest, aged 19, N.F., son of Mr. and Mrs. Carter, 5, Neville Street, Skipton, died in hospital in France, 1917.
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Private Ernest Edward CARTER
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Northumberland Fusiliers
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 3rd Division
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Wimereux Communal Cemetery
CWGC Headstone
Courtesy of Colin Chadwick, Harrogate
Wimereux Communal Cemetery
CWGC Headstone - personal inscription
Courtesy of Colin Chadwick, Harrogate
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05 April 1918
SKIPTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL STUDENT FATALLY WOUNDED
We are also sorry to state that Private Ernest Edward Carter, Northumberland Fusiliers, third son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Henry Carter, 5 Neville Street, Skipton, died in No. 8 Stationary Hospital, France, from multiple gunshot wound and amputation of the right leg, on March 27th. Only 19 years of age deceased was called up on April 20th last year and had been out at the Front since February 10th last. While attending Water Street Council School he won a Petyt Scholarship, with which he proceeded to Skipton Grammar School, where he further distinguished himself. He won a County Minor Scholarship and also a Bursarship, and but for the war would have entered the teaching profession. He was a teacher and assistant secretary at the Gargrave Road Primitive Methodist Sunday School. The Battalion Chaplain, in a letter to the parents says that by his death the country has lost a brave soldier, and adds that he buried him on March 27th "in a pretty little cemetery whore so many of our brave boys already lie." Another son of Mr. and Mr,. Carter, Sergeant Arthur Carter, is in France with the West Riding Regiment.
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05 April 1918
CARTER - Died in hospital in France, Pte. Ernest Carter, of the Northumberland Fusiliers, son of Mr. and Mrs. E.H. Carter, of 5, Neville Street, Skipton, aged 19.
05 April 1918
CRAVEN AND THE WAR
Pte. Ernest E. Carter Dies of Wounds
Pte. Ernest Edward Carter, of the Northumberland Fusiliers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Henry Carter, of 5, Neville Street, Skipton, died on March 27th at No. 8, Stationary Hospital, France, from multiple gun-shot wounds and amputation of the right leg. In a letter to his parents a chaplain stated that the country had lost a brave soldier, and added that he was buried on March 27th in a pretty little cemetery where so many of our brave boys already were. A nurse at the hospital also wrote stating that the chance of saving his life was hopeless from the beginning. Pte. Carter, who was 19 years of age, went out to France in February last. From the Water Street School he won Petyt Scholarship, entitling him to go to the Skipton Grammar School, where he was a student up to his joining the colours. While at the Grammar School he won a County Minor Scholarship, and afterwards won a bursarship. It was his intention of going in for the teaching profession. He was closely connected with the Gargrave Road Primitive Methodist Church, being a teacher and assistant secretary of the Sunday School. Mr. and Mrs. Carter have another son serving in France, Sergt. Arthur Carter, of the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment.
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