Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Lance-Sergeant H. C. Carter, Hampshire Regiment, later Royal Artillery, Palestine Police, and Inspector, Admiralty Constabulary

1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (3530. B/Const. H. C. Carter. Pal. Police.); Police L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue (Inspr. Henry C. Carter.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (5495813 Bmbr. H. C. Carter. R.A.); together with a Duke of Connaught’s Own bronze prize medallion, the reverse engraved ‘43rd Wessex. Div Drill Comp. Winners No. 9 Platoon. Pte. H. Carter. 1935.’, good very fine (7) £120-£160

Henry Cornelius Carter was born in Gosport, Hampshire, on 27 December 1914 and attested for the 6th (Duke of Connaught’s Own) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment (Territorial Army) on 4 May 1931. Promoted Corporal on 10 May 1938, he was called up for service on 26 September 1938, and after a brief period with the Royal Engineers transferred to the 393/48th Searchlight Regiment, Royal Artillery as an Acting Lance-Sergeant on 17 July 1940. Following the cessation of hostilities he joined the Palestine Police, and served with them in post-War Palestine, before moving to the Admiralty Constabulary, with whom he was advanced Inspector. His final appointment was with the Admiralty Constabulary’s Fire Service. He retired in 1979, and died in Fareham, Hampshire, on 24 August 2013.

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