Private Charles Samuel Carter

Army Number : 2524

Battalion : 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Hollington, Derbyshire. Son of Edward and Martha Carter, of Market Place, Ashbourne, Derbyshire. He was a farmer prior to enlisting at Ashbourne, He went to France 28th June 1915 and was killed in action, 30th September 1915, at age 19, when the German exploded a mine and shelled the British line at Outerdom, Belgium.

Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.

Private Charles Samuel Carter is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St, Mary’s Church War Memorial, Mapleton, Derbyshire.

His brother Private Thomas George Carter, 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.