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Son of Roy Wesley Carter and Della Edna McGibbon, of Barrie, Ontario. Brother of Gunner Wallace Wilfred Carter, regimental number B-53573, accidentally killed in Villanova, Italy, on December 23, 1944, while serving with the 6th Battalion, 5th Counter-Mortar Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery, and of Privates Kenneth Roy Carter and Douglas Keith Carter, who fought in Europe. They survived the war.
On November 5, 1940, the Beaverford, a member of convoy HX-84, was targeted by the German battleship Admiral Scheer and sunk by gunfire 755 nautical miles (869 miles/1,398 km) south-southwest of Reykjavik, Iceland, position 52°26'N/32°34'W. The captain and 76 crew members lost their lives.
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Barrie street named in honour of Fireman Clifford Carter with a poppy. -
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Digital gallery of
Fireman Clifford Carter
Digital gallery of
Fireman Clifford Carter
Digital gallery of
Fireman Clifford Carter
Digital gallery of
Fireman Clifford Carter
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 109 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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