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VC520 Herbert Augustine Carter
BORN 26 May 1874
DIED 13 January 1916 AGE 41
VC Won 19 December 1903 AGE 29
Place VC Won Jidballi
War/Campaign Somaliland
Name Herbert Augustine Carter No.
VC Issue No. 520 Awards VC
Regiment Indian Army, Mounted Infantry
Later
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Major
Place Of Birth Exeter, Devon, England
Place Of Death Mwele Mdongo, Kenya
Buried/Location Ashes St Ercus Churchyard, St Erth, Cornwall, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 9 December 1904
VC Presented 31 January 1905, Major R W Falcon, Wadamago, Somaliland
Memorials
P Headstone, St Ercus Churchyard, St Erth, Cornwall, England
P Wooden memorial in the Chapel of St Maurice at the Parish Church of Saint Petroc, Bodmin, Cornwall
P Named at base of St Erth War Memorial, Cornwall
P Replica VC, wooden candlestick & named on Roll of Honour at St Ercus Church, St Erth, Cornwall
P Memorial, York Minster, York, nth Yorkshire
P Named on memorial, St Marys Church, Pune (Poona), Maharashtra, India
P Named on the masonic roll of honour scroll, first vestibule, Freemasons Hall, Queen Street, London
By The Way…
Already ill with fever, he died of heat exhaustion in East Africa
VC Held By
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Museum, The Keep, Bodmin, Cornwall, England
