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Lieut Arthur Donald Dundas Carter Veteran

Birth
Purulia, West Bengal, India
Death
20 Jul 1915 (aged 26)
Merville, Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
Burial
Merville, Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Add to Map
Plot
V. B. 25.
Memorial ID
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Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
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
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
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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