Second Lieutenant Sydney Chatterton Carter

Army Number : (formerly Private 1778, 20th London Regiment and Private 530423, Royal West Kent Regiment)

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of William Chatterton and Mary Carter, of Bank House, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. He gained a commission and joined the 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, on 12th June 1916. He was mortally wounded in the attack on the German positions at Ovillers, France, on 1st July 1916 on the 1st day of the Battle of the Somme. He died of these wounds on 3rd of July 1916.

Buried: Corbie Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Plot 1. Row B. Grave 22.

Second Lieutenant Sydney Chatterton Carter is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Nottingham Boys High School War Memorial, Nottingham.
Nottingham Rowing Club War Memorial, Nottingham.
Ilkeston War Memorial, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.