Name
Albert Francis Carter
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/03/1918
23 years
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
40626
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Battalion
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Inscription
UK & Other Memorials
All Saints Church Memorial, Radwell
Pre War
Albert was born in Radwell, Hertfordshire, in 1895. The son of Noah and Phoebe Carter. Baptised on 31st March 1895, in Radwell, Herts.
1901 Census: Albert is recorded as aged 6,living with his parents, sisters Martha 11 and Elizabeth 8, in Rectory Lane, Radwell, Herts.
By 1911 Albert had left school and was working as a Farm Labourer, still living at home with his parents, sisters Martha and Elizabeth in Radwell, Herts.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bedford, Bedfordshire, initially he was posted to the Suffolk Regiment with the S/N 45190. Then transferred to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the S/N 40626.
Albert was Killed in Action on 25th March 1918, he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the missing.
Additional Information
Effects of £7-3s- 0d left to his mother Phoebe.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
Stuart Osborne
