Name
Leonard Carter
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/06/1917
41
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
DM2/179541
Army Service Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NORTHWOOD CEMETERY
Plot B, Grave 153.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Post Office Memorial, Not on the Rickmansworth memorials, Northwood War Memorial, Middlesex
Pre War
Son of Leonard and Jane (nee LEGERTON) CARTER; husband of Gertrude Annie (nee TAPPENDEN) CARTER.
Leonard was born in Rickmansworth in 1875 and baptised on the 12th of December 1875 at St Mary’s, Rickmansworth. His father was a Labourer when Leonard was born, but became a Groom later.
His parents married 2 May 1874 at St Mary’s, Rickmansworth, Herts. Leonard died 1887 in the Watford district aged 48.
In 1881 the family, including six children, were living on Woodcock Hill. Rickmansworth.
His father died in 1887 age 48 and in 1891 Leonard, age 15 and an Asbestos Mill Labourer, was living with his mother, occupation given as Sweetshop and General, and 3 siblings, in Batchworth.
On the 1891 Census, Leonard was an asbestos mill labourer aged 15, he still lived in Rickmansworth, with his widowed mother and three siblings.
He was appointed Postman Rickmansworth to Northwood 14 April 1894, Postman Northwood to Watford October 1900. In 1901, listed as head Leonard lived at 218 Belmont, Hallowell Road South, Ruislip, with Alfred R Rackley as boarding with him, both were postman. Leonard became a Sorting Office Postman Northwood to Watford January 1904.
In 1908 Leonard married Gertrude Annie Tappenden the marriage being recorded in both Rickmansworth, on the 12th of April, and in West Ashford.
In 1911 they were living in Reginald Road, Northwood with their son Sydney, born in 1909, and a Boarder Gilbert Hill. Leonard was still a postman and aged 34. A daughter, Zena, was born in 1914.
In 1918 Gertrude remarried to Frederick T King. They had a son, Walter, in 1929 and in 1939 were living in Poundfield Road, Uckfield, Sussex with Walter, Zena Carter Gertrude's daughter from her marriage to Leonard, and Albert Sabine age 6.
Wartime Service
Nothing is known of Leonard’s service history apart from the fact that he enlisted in London died at the 3rd Southern General Hospital, Oxford and he appears to have no medals.
Additional Information
Gertrude remarried 1918 in the Uxbridge, Middx, district to Frederick T KING.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Mike Collins, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
