BORN 16/01/1896. SON OF JOHN CARTER & CAROLINE ELIZABETH BRAIN (1867-1908), OF 138 SHARP STREET, NEWLAND AVENUE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). AN APPRENTICE JOINER (1911 CENSUS) AND CLERK.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL ON 02/02/1914. SERVED WITH THE EAST RIDING ROYAL ENGINEERS. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOO, 4.5 INCHES TALL, 33 INCH CHEST.
DISCHARGED WITH SILVER BADGE (NO: 368715). DIED OF BRONCHITIS, AND TUBERCULOSIS OF THE LUNGS, ON 11/08/1918, AGED 21
BURIED IN HULL. LISTED ON EAST RIDING ROYAL ENGINEERS MEMORIAL, AT HULL MINSTER.
When John Lawrence Carter was born on 16 January 1896, his father, John, was 42 and his mother, Caroline, was 28. He had one brother and three sisters. He volunteered to serve in World War I and was a sapper with the Royal Engineers. After two years in France he was starting to have medical problems. He was shipped back in England on 25 March 1918 and immediately hospitalised with tuberculosis. He was discharged from the Army on 23 May 1918 as ‘no longer physically fit for war service’. He was granted an Army disablement pension but he died on 11 August 1918 at the age of 22. He is buried in Hull’s Western Cemetery in an official Commonwealth War Graves Commission grave.
