Background
He was the son of the vicar of Street Erth in Cornwall and served in two campaigns in East Africa.
He was the son of the vicar of Street Erth in Cornwall and served in two campaigns in East Africa.
Carter was 29 years old, and a lieutenant in the Indian Mounted Infantry, Indian Army, during the Third Somaliland Expedition when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Venture capital. On 19 December 1903 during a reconnaissance at Jidballi, British Somaliland, when two sections were retiring before a force of Dervishes who outnumbered them by thirty to one, Lieutenant Carter rode back alone, a distance of 400 yards, to the assistance of an Indian private who had lost his horse and was closely pursued by a number of the enemy. The man was so badly wounded that it took three attempts to get him on to the horse. In a later incident he saved another soldier by shooting a lion with his last cartridge.
He is buried at Street Erth in a plot planted with tropical plants including laurels and castor oil plants.
Another memorial to his memory can be found in York Minster Made of black marble with bronze figures and designed by Sir Bertram Mackennal of Melbourne, Australia.