J. L. Carter . Royal Canadian Air Force 419 Sqd.
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Cpl. Jack Carter . British Army 1st Btn. South Lancashire Regiment from Gawcott Fields, Buckingham, Bucks My father in law Jack Carter was in the Assault Troops in the first wave and landed on Queen White near Caen, at 07.30 approx. on D-Day 6th June 1944.
He was in charge of a mortar squad, he survived any injury up until the time a German mortar bomb landed near them and he sustained severe shrapnel damage to his back. He can remember watching the the RAF 'blanket-bombing' Caen, so it must have been after this.
After recovering from his injuries he was sent to Malta. This was with the 2nd Battalion South Lancs, as that was the unit he was with when 'demobbed' in 1946
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Sgt. Jeffrey John Hamilton Carter . Royal Australian Air Force from Yass, New South Wales, Australia (d.12th April 1943) Sergeant Carter was the Son of Geoffrey James Flight and Maisie Angela Carter, of Yass, New South Wales, Australia. Dip. of Agric. (Hawkesbury).
He was 21 and is buried in the Georgetown Cemetery, St. Vincent & the Grenadines.
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L/Cpl. John Carter . British Army 2/6th Battalion East Surrey Regiment from Kingston-Upon-Thames My father, Jack Carter was a very private man regarding his war experiences and only once when I was about 14 did he, one night, decide to tell me about some of his memories both as a serving solider and then later when he became a POW for 5 years. I have been moved to write this short account of my father’s war years having watched the Channel 4 programme (July 2018) about the 51st Division and its defence of St Valery-en-Caux in June 1940.
His story, like so many others, is of a young man born 1916 whose best years of his life were spent under arms and in his case as a prisoner. He had come to Britain in 1937 to escape the repressive regime of Catholic Ireland where, as a Protestant, you did not have the work opportunities that should have been open to all.
He joined up in November 1939 at Isleworth Barracks Surrey and became a member of the East Surrey Regiment TA. Originally, he was in 1/6th but due to breaking his thumb in a regimental boxing match was assigned to 2/6th battalion.
He was sent to France and as a crack shot with good eyes was often used as a spotter regarding enemy aircraft. He was trained on a Bren gun carrier as a driver and told stories of learning to drive on a Sunday morning going around the Victoria Monument outside Buckingham Palace. He described his personal retreat to St. Valery with his Bren gun carrier group, carrying injured personnel and hoping for evacuation.
Evacuation never came and he was not forthcoming about the immediate days before capture. He was captured and then marched through France and finally to Holland where he was put on a barge down the Rhine, he escaped twice but was recaptured on each occasion. He ended up in Silesia where he was put to work down iron mines which he hated.
The German command insisted that you had 4 fingers and a thumb on each hand to work down the mines. His distaste for the claustrophobia of the mine was such that he got a fellow prisoner using a pick to take his left hand small finger off. The result was freedom to the surface. The war moved on and he was moved around a range of camps and took part in some of the infamous death marches, on one occasion the column were ordered to dig out a snowbound train which resulted in the loss of two toes through frost bite.
He was finally liberated by an American GI in Germany, somewhere, he never knew, but he always kept the GI’s jacket which he had been given.
My father resumed his pre-war job as a hardware salesman and lived a full life and I look back with immense pride at what he had done during those 5 years and hope that endeavour of this understated nature is recognised but equally that the world will never experience anything of this form ever again.
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Cpl. Keith Clark Carter . US Army Coy. F 407th Regiment from Cleveland, Texas I was appointed First Scout in Co. F of our battalion, 407th Regiment, 102nd Division. My ship left for Europe from Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. We disembarked in September at Cherbourg and trained (mostly long marches for endurance) near the town of St. Pere d'Eglise. I was captured by the Germans on 2nd December 1944 while taking 3 prisoners I helped capture during a pre-dawn attack against Flossdorf, a town on the Roer River. I was interrogated by a German officer, anything I questioned, such as persecution of the Jews, was "European politics, which you don't understand". His non-English speaking companion asked the interrogator about the session, and he told him I was "sehr intelligent". I was awarded a Bronze Star. Keith Carter
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Able Sea. Kenneth Victor Carter . Royal Navy HMS Excellent from Nottingham My father, Kenneth Carter joined the Navy in 1942 and was released in 1946. He served on various ships, Victory, Orlando, Philoctetes, Excellent.
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AB. Kenneth Victor Carter . Royal Navy HMS Philoclites My Dad, Kenneth Carter served on HMS Philoclites between 1st of July and 2nd of March 1944.
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Sgt. L. R. Carter . Royal Air Force 41 Squadron
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LAC. Lesley Carter . Royal Air Force 540 Squadron. My brother, 921542 L.A.C. Lesley Carter, served with 540 Squadron at Wick. Before he passed on he told me he was attached to a section commanded by the son of the owner of Ilford Film Co. which consisted of two Spitfires that were stripped down fitted with extra fuel tanks and a camera, he told me the Germans had nothing to touch them. He also said the Ilford Company petitioned for these special planes but were refused as production for fighters had priority so the the film company bought and paid for the equipment needed.
I am searching for other photographs of this period at Wick that I know exists. The reason I am sending these photographs is because there is no mention of Spitfires flying from that station and there must be many who would have personal photographs of this small group of men.
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PFC. Marion Woodrow Carter . US Army Co.I, 3rd Battalion 335th Infantry Regiment from Pike Co. Arkansas PFC Marion W. Carter, Infantry Rifleman, Company I, 3rd Battalion, 335th Infantry Regiment, 84th Infantry Division
He received 1st Bronze Star for gallantry at the Battle of Lindern.
He received 2nd Bronze Star and Purple Heart during the Battle of the Bulge, at Rochefort Belgium.
He was listed as Missing in Action on 24th December 1944, and then listed as Prisoner of War on 25th of December 1944, by the Red Cross.
He was taken to Stalag 9B, Bad Orb, and stayed until liberated in April 1945.
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Sgt. N. C. Carter . 102 Squadron
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Cpl. Perce Carter . British Army Dorsetshire Regiment from Abertridwr, Wales (d.6th Jun 1944) I met my uncle Perce when he came home just before D-Day, as I was evacuated from Sevenoaks in Kent to my grandmothers home in Wales. Some weeks later, I witnessed my grandmother receiving the lost-in-action telegram some weeks later. A witness to his death during the D-Day landing on Gold Beach told us he was killed by a land mine. He is buried in a military grave in France.
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Able Seaman. R. Carter . Royal Navy HMS Forfar R. Carter is listed as one of the survivors of HMS Forfar.
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F/O R. D. Carter . 97 Squadron
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F/O R. D. Carter . 97 Squadron
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F/O. Roy Carter . RCAF 434 Squadron (d.9th Jul 1944) My brother, F/O Roy E. Carter, RCAF, was a navigator with the Blachford crew ( shot down on June 17, 1944 on the Sterkrade OP) He was an evader until executed by the Gestapo in Tilburg, Holland on July 9, 1944 with two others ( RAF and RAAF). See Todd`s `Pilgrimages of Grace` for details or see his story at www.bombercrew.com On this site you will also see the story of my cousin, F/O Joe R. Latremouille RCAF W/OP KIA March 11, 1944 ( Essen OP). He was with 434 and also flew from Croft. I have visited Croft (2003)and it was a thrilling time for me to see the site almost 60 years after two family members had flown from there.
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Samuel Henry Carter . from Kates Hill, Dudley My grandfather survived three days at sea after the sinking of the Lancastria in June 1940. Any information or photos (there is a possible photo which appeared in the News of the World) on his return to England would be welcome.
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Pte. Sidney George Carter . British Army Pioneer Corps from Marham, Norfolk Sid Carter was in the Pioneer Corps during WW11 and helped with Italian prisoners of war camps in Derby before going to Normandy about a week after D Day.
He served in France, Belgium and Holland.
He was demobbed soon after end of war and then worked in building trade before owning his own building company before dying in 1955 aged 37 years.
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Stella Fowles Carter . Auxiliary Territorial Service from Wootten-under-Edge My mother served in the ATS during WW11 and was a driver ferrying officers around in and around Clacton-on-Sea. She met my father a Captain in the Royal Marines (Stanley Norman Hackwood) whilst acting as his driver. I have a photograph of them there as they were married in St Pauls church in Clacton. I also have a photograph of my mother in her section of the ATS in front of a place called Hillcrest Towers, which I assume was in Clacton as well but am not sure.
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F/Lt. Thomas Charles "Nick" Carter . Royal Air Force 234 Squadron from Hull, East Yorkshire My father Thomas Carter joined the RAF soon after his 18th birthday and started his flying training at 16FTS, Derby. At some point during these early months he was given the sobriquet 'Nick', after the hero of a popular radio series entitled 'Nick Carter Private Detective'. For the rest of his life he was known as Nick to RAF and work colleagues.
After basic flying training he was posted to 57 at RAF Hawarden to convert onto Spitfires. After 12 hours of solo on Spitfires he was suddenly posted, as a Sergeant Pilot, to RAF Roborough where he flew Lysanders on Air-Sea Rescue duties. From Roborough he was transferred to RAF Warmwell in Dorset where he continued flying Lysanders on 1487 Target Towing Flight. Finally, at the beginning of 1943 he was posted to 52 OTU at RAF Aston Down to restart his conversion onto Spitfires. This time he completed the course.
From Aston Down he joined 234 Squadron at RAF Skeabrae in the Orkneys flying Spitfire Vb and from there he moved with the squadron to RAF Honiley and then to RAF West Malling. At West Malling 234 Squadron commenced fighter sweeps and bomber escort sorties over France. During a busy couple of months Nick Carter was awarded one Messerschmitt Bf 109, probably destroyed, and one damaged.
Then, virtually all of the 234 Squadron pilots were sent to Australia to form 549 Squadron flying Spitfire Mk VIII. For the rest of the war Nick and the rest of the pilots, their aircraft serviced by RAAF groundcrew, flew in the defence of Darwin in Northern Australia.
In many ways Nick had a lucky war; despite 5 years of operational and training flying he came through unharmed. Unlike the 'aces' he did little damage to the enemy, but, in common with the vast majority of RAF aircrew who never made it into the history books he did 'his bit' and we should be immensely proud of all of them.
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2nd Lt. W. R. G. Carter . Home Guard C Coy. Workington Btn.
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W. Carter . British Army 4th Btn. Welsh Regiment
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Gnr Wilfred Carter . British Army 111th HAA Reg Royal Artillery from Audley, Newcastle-under-Lyme The information I have is rather sparce as my father died in 1963 before I could talk to him about his war service -
- 18.7.40 209th AA Training Reg
- 15.9.40 Posted to 347th HAA Reg RA
- 22.10.40 Regimented with 111th HAA Reg RA
- 9.44 To NW Europe
- 27.10.45 Posted to 1 Holding Unit
My mother spoke of his return. She said he was traumatised by what he saw at Belsen but he never spoke of it again.
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William F. Carter . US Army Airforce 855th Bomb Sqd. 491st Bomb Group I purchased at a flea market, a "cloth" map of England. On the cover, it has the following information:
William F. Carter, 855 Bomb Sqd. 491st Bomb GP.
R(?)P.O. 558 c/o P.M. N.Y, N.Y.
1943-1944-1945
I have determined through research, that the aircraft was indeed a B24J, serial number 42-40722, with the name of "Little Gramper".
I would like to possibly find any descendents of Mr. Carter, and return this to a family member.
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William J. Carter . Royal Navy HMS Vandyck My grandfather, William J. Carter, was a POW at Oflag IXa from June 1940. He was an engineer on HMS Vandyck which was bombed (on 10th June 1940) and sunk off Norway on the way to helping in the evacuation of Narvik. He was there for the duration of the war. He died in 1957.
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WM Carter . British Army Royal Armoured Corps WM Carter served with the Royal Armoured Corps British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: Unfortunately The Wartime Memories Project has lost touch with Dan, his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Sgt Thomas Carter. . RAF 12Sqd. (d.15th Jun 1943) Rear Gnr. Thomas Carter was killed on 15th June 1943 in Lancaster III W4992 GZ-A Bar of 12sqd
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Flt.Sgt. William John Carthew . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 138 Squadron from Woodford Bridge, Essex (d.10th Oct 1945) Flight Sergeant (Air Gunner) William Carthew was the Son of William Herbert Carthew, and of Elizabeth Carthew, of Woodford Bridge, Essex.
He was aged 22 when he died and is buried in Middelfart Sondre Cemetery in Denmark.
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Lt. Charles Ernest Cartmel . Canadian Armed Forces Lincoln and Welland Regiment Dad, Charles Cartmel served from 1939 with the Montreal 1st Battery and switched over with the invasion forces with the Lincs and was shot crossing the Masse River into Holland. He woke up in a British army hospital and was shipped home.
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Sgt. Cartwright DFC.. Royal Air Force 32 Squadron On 27 June 1940, F/Lt Davies and P/O Stone of 79 Squadron and F/Lt Crossley, P/O Daw, P/O Grice, Sgt Cartwright and Sgt Whitby of 32 Squadron, were ordered to parade before the king to receive their medals
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