THOMAS+CARTER

Carter, Thomas George, Private, 3541, 1st/6th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment Born Mayfield, Derbyshire Enlisted Buxton, Derbyshire Resided Ashbourne, Derbyshire Killed in action 15th October 1915

Aged 19 Son of Edward and Martha Carter, of Market Place, Ashbourne, Derbyshire. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial

Ashbourne News, 24th December 1915: Thomas went to the front 'over a year ago', and was apparently killed in a bayonet charge. Charles and Thomas also had a brother, Harold, of the 1st Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment. He had been in the army for five years, seeing service in India, and he had been severely wounded in one hand and the shoulder whilst serving in France. He had also been treated for frost-bite. A further brother, Edward, was in the Derbyshire Yeomanry.