Name
Percy William Carter
1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/09/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
242214
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
2nd/7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Christ Church (formerly Holy Trinity Church) Memorial, Waltham Cross
Pre War
Percy William Carter was born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, in 1898, son of Joseph Carter a, Nursery Gardener and Elizabeth Carter. (nee Thear). The eldest of two children.
1901 Census records Percy aged 3, living with his parents at, 3, Burleigh Road, Cheshunt, Herts. The family had a boarder Walter Jeffery also a Nursery Gardener.
1911 Census records Percy aged 13, at school, living with his parents and sister Florence (8) at, 14, Kings Road, Waltham Cross, Herts.
Wartime Service
Percy enlisted at Cheshunt, Herts, posted to the Sherwood Foresters, (Notts and Derby) Regiment, with the service number 242214. Seeing action on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 26th September 1917, aged 19. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
Additional Information
His mother Elizabeth Carter received a dependents pension of 7/- a week for life from 4th June 1918. His effects of £3-8s-10d, Pay Owing and a War Gratuity of £3, went to his father Joseph Carter.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
