Name
Robert John Carter
6 October 1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/02/1919
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
202369
Gloucestershire Regiment
2nd/5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BISHOP'S STORTFORD OLD CEMETERY
A. 14. 20.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Rest in the Lord
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial,
Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Robert John Carter was born in Bishop's Stortford on 6 October 1895 to George and Martha Carter and baptised on 24 November 1895 at St Michaels, Bishop's Stortford.
On the 1911 Census he was living with his family at 11 Rye Street and working as an apprentice Cabinet Maker.
Wartime Service
He served initially in the Hertfordshire Regiment, Reg No. 2166 and then in Gloucestershire Regiment under no. Reg No. 6420.
An obituary in the Herts & Essex Observer stated "Robert John Carter Glos Regt., son of George & Martha Carter, 11 Rye Street Bishop's Stortford; who was only demobilised a fortnight ago, after serving almost 3 years in France, died on Tuesday in Bishop's Stortford hospital from pneumonia, age 22."
Additional Information
Pay owing was awarded to his mother Martha.
Although the newspaper states he was 22 when he died, the CWGC information is correct as he was 23.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
