Name
William Carter
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/03/1917
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
41612
(Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Middlesex Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE
VI. C. 26
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Croxley Green Village Memorial, Croxley Green,
All Saints' Church Shrine, Croxley Green,
John Dickinson & Co Memorial, Croxley Mills, Croxley Green,
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial,
Oddfellows Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
William Carter was born in Croxley Green on 13 June 1891 to Charles and Emma Carter.
He was 24 when he died and his mother was living at 46 Scots Hill.
In 1911, Emma was already a widow. William had four siblings and worked at Croxley Mills as a paper mill hand. In 1911, one brother and one sister also worked there.
He is recorded as enlisting in Bedford.
Wartime Service
Died, probably in one of the Casualty Clearing Stations at Heilly on 14th March 1917, aged 24.
He may have been one of the three other ranks who had been wounded whilst in the field in the Bethune Road sector ten days before during an attack. The cemetery where he is buried lies between Albert and Amiens in the Somme area.
Acknowledgments
Tanya Britton, Brian Thomson Croxley Green in the First World War, Rickmansworth Historical Society 2014
