Private William Carter

Army Number: 4465

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

Born at Darley Dale, near Matlock, Derbyshire. Son of John and Georgina Carter. He was a nursery boy prior to enlisting on 3rd August 1915 at Matlock. He went to France on 18th March 1916 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Foncquevillers Military Cemetery, France. Plot 1. Row L. Grave 33.

Private William Carter is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Whitworth Institute Park War Memorial, Darley Dale, Derbyshire.