Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second War C.B.E. group of ten awarded to Paymaster Captain B. Carter, Royal Navy, a veteran of the Persian Gulf and Dardanelles operations who went on to witness active service in North Africa in the 1939-45 War

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, C.B.E. (Military) Commander’s 2nd type neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel; Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (Asst. Payr. B. Carter, R.N., H.M.S. Swiftsure); 1914-15 Star (Asst. Payr. B. Carter, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Payr. Lt. Cr. B. Carter, R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935, mounted as worn where applicable, enamel on the lower arm of the first chipped in places, and initial officially corrected on the second, otherwise generally very fine or better (10) £600-£800

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2012.

C.B.E. London Gazette 11 June 1942.

Bernard Carter, who was born in June 1885, was educated at Christ’s Hospital and entered the Royal Navy as an Assistant Clerk in 1902. Advanced to Assistant Paymaster in June 1906, he was subsequently present in H.M.S. Swiftsure during operations in the Persian Gulf 1913-14, and he remained similarly employed for most of the Great War, seeing active service in the Dardanelles 1915-16, and gaining advancement to Paymaster Lieutenant-Commander in June 1916. His final wartime appointment, from September 1918, was at the Royal Naval barracks, Devonport.

Between the Wars, he served in the Hong Kong base Tamar 1923-26, where he was advanced to Paymaster Commander, prior to being placed on the Retired List in June 1935 in the rank of Paymaster Captain. Recalled on the renewal of hostilities, he served as Base Accountant Officer in Alexandria, and, having been placed back on the Retired List, the Captain died in Dorset in March 1954.