Name
Joseph Morris Carter
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/06/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
204278
London Regiment *1
2nd/1st (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 9.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Bishops' Stortford Town Memorial
Pre War
Joseph Morris Carter was born in 1892 in Bishop's Stortford, son of Alfred and Alice Carter, and baptised on 30 December 1894 at Holy Trinity, Bishop's Stortford.
On
the 1911 Census, he was living with his family at 44 Middle Row, Bishop's
Stortford, Herts and working as a Coal Merchant's Labourer. In late 1915 he
married Esther Shirley at St George's Hanover Square, London and they had a
daughter Peggy on 31 January 1917.
Wartime Service
He enlisted into the London Regiment and was killed at the end of the Arras offensive, probably during a flanking operation on the Hindenburg Line.
The Register of Soldiers' Effects states that he died of wounds in France, however, as he is named on the Arras Memorial, it is assumed his body was never recovered. He also served under Reg. No. 8623.
Additional Information
His widow Esther received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £2 5s 10d.
*1 More correctly London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers).
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
