Background
Carter was the son of a Captain in the Royal Engineers.
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John Carter
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Education
He was educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Career
Having passed out as Queen"s Cadet, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant into the Indian Staff Corps on 28 July 1900. He served in Waziristan in 1901–1902 and was seconded to the Indian Police Service in Burma in 1905. In the First World War he served as a GSO2 (staff officer) on the Imperial General Staff, reaching the rank of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel and being mentioned in despatches twice.
He joined the Metropolitan Police in 1919 (although he did not formally retire from the army until 1921) and was appointed Deputy Assistant Commissioner on 24 October 1922.
In 1933 he took command of Number.2 District (North-West London), based at Paddington. In 1923, Carter was made a Cavalier of the Order of Street Maurice and Street Lazarus by the King of Italy.
On 3 June 1925 (in the King"s Birthday Honours he was made a Commander of the British Empire (Commander of the Order of the British Empire). Carter died in Tavistock, Devon, aged 62.
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Nationality
United Kingdom