Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private F. Carter, Middlesex Regiment, formerly East Surrey Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (1260 Pte E. Carter. E. Surrey Regt); 1914 Star (L-9350 Pte F. Carter. 1/Middx: R.); British War and Victory Medals (L.9350 Pte. F. Carter. Midd’x R.) mounted as worn, contact marks, nearly very fine and better (4) £180-220

Edwin Carter attested for the 4th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment at Kingston-on-Thames on 20 November 1899 noting his age as 19. He served in South Africa from 19 February 1900 to 12 July 1901 and 24 February 1902 until 25 September 1902.

Frank Carter was born in Lambeth in 1884. He attested for the Middlesex Regiment at London on 4 November 1903 aged 19 years and did not declare any previous service, although he is likely to be the same man as Edwin Carter. He transferred to the Army Reserve on 12 November 1906 and was mobilised on 5 August 1914. During the Great War he served on the Western Front with the 1st Battalion from 11 August 1914. He was wounded by gun shot in the head on 2 June 1915, and was also wounded again with shell shock on 31 July 1917. He was discharged on 31 March 1920.