CARTER, ARTHUR DONALD DUNDAS, Lieutenant 4th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army, elder son of Roderick Edmond Carter, of Waratilla, Wimborne Road, Bournemouth, formerly of the Public Works Dept., Bengal, by his wife, Mary Ursula, daughter of Donald William Dundas; b. Arrah, Bengal, 6 Sept. 1888; educated Charterhouse and Sandhurst; gazetted to the 4th Gurkhas, 9 Sept. 1908, and promoted Lieutenant 9 Dec. 1910. He was attached to the Shropshire L.I. from Sept. 1908 till Sept. 1909; served in the Abor Expedition in 1913, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders during the winter of 1914-15, being accidentally killed near Merville, France, 20 July, 1915, by the explosion of a bomb while instructing his men. He was buried in Merville Cemetery; unmarried.
He is also commemorated on the Charterhouse School War Memorial in the Charterhouse School Chapel, Charterhouse Road, Godalming, Surrey (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/198189) and on the Indian Army WW1 memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
CARTER, ARTHUR DONALD DUNDAS, Lieutenant 4th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army, elder son of Roderick Edmond Carter, of Waratilla, Wimborne Road, Bournemouth, formerly of the Public Works Dept., Bengal, by his wife, Mary Ursula, daughter of Donald William Dundas; b. Arrah, Bengal, 6 Sept. 1888; educated Charterhouse and Sandhurst; gazetted to the 4th Gurkhas, 9 Sept. 1908, and promoted Lieutenant 9 Dec. 1910. He was attached to the Shropshire L.I. from Sept. 1908 till Sept. 1909; served in the Abor Expedition in 1913, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders during the winter of 1914-15, being accidentally killed near Merville, France, 20 July, 1915, by the explosion of a bomb while instructing his men. He was buried in Merville Cemetery; unmarried.
He is also commemorated on the Charterhouse School War Memorial in the Charterhouse School Chapel, Charterhouse Road, Godalming, Surrey (see: https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/198189) and on the Indian Army WW1 memorial in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
Gravesite Details
Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, attd. 1st Battalion, 4th Gurkha Rifles. Age: Unknown.
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