2nd LT. Carter, Lawrence Bertrum

Service number: O-1016187 (originally 32379407)

Age: 30

Born: May 12, 1914, Olean, Cattaraugus County, New York

Hometown: Portville, Cattaraugas County, New York

Family:

Carl Leslie Carter (father)

Cecelia Margaret (nee Flanigan) Carter (mother)

Leslie Charles Carter (brother)

Dorothy Maxine Carter/Angell (half sister)

Mildred Edith Carter/Bloodgood (half sister)

Genevieve C. (nee Archibald) Carter/Chaffee (wife)

Rank: Second Lieutenant

Function: Company Commander / Tank Officer

Battalion: 17th Tank Battalion

Division: 7th Armored Division

Company: A Company

Date of death: November 23, 1944

Status: Killed In Action

Place of death: Beeck , Landkreis Heinsberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Spot: Not available

Awards / Commendations:

★ Purple Heart                                                                     

★ World War II Victory Medal

★ Combat Infantryman Badge                                              

★ Marksmanship Badge

★ American Campaign Medal

★ Army Good Conduct Medal

★ European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign              

Grave number: Plot H, Row 3, Grave 1

Cemetery:

American War Cemetery Margraten

Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial

Margraten, Eijsden-Margraten Municipality, Limburg, Netherlands

Date of enlistment: In 1940, he enlisted in the regular Army Reserve and was discharged in 1941.

Re-enlisted on 3 July 1942 at Buffalo in New York.

Other information: The following is from the 7th Armored Division archives

In 1940, he enlisted in the regular Army Reserve and was discharged in 1941. In July of 1942, he enlisted as a volunteer officer candidate and went to officers' candidate school at Fort Knox, Ky. In November, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and assigned to the Seventh Armored Division.

In November of 1943, he signed up for overseas duty and left the Seventh Armored Division to go to England, where he was assigned to a cavalry reconnaissance battalion. In June, 1944, Lt. Carter went into France with that unit, but in October he received a transfer back to the Seventh Armored Division, then in England, and was made company commander in his tank battalion. He saw action in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany with Lieutenant-General Courtney Hodges' First Army.