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Sergeant Albert Edward Carter

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Military service

Service number: B/83222
Age: 48
Rank: Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Birth: January 13, 1894 Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment: July 1, 1940 Toronto, Ontario
Death: April 22, 1942 Bowen Road Hospital, Hong Kong

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: VIII. A. 18.
Additional information
Son of Ernest Edward Carter and Amy Phillips Welch, of Toronto, Ontario. Husband of Kathleen Russell, of Toronto, Ontario. Father of Ernest Charles, Marilyn Yvonne and Kathleen Priscilla Carter.

He served 4 years with the 12th York Regiment, service number 136321. Veteran of the First World War, service number 452067, he served in Ontario, in England and fought in France with the 58th Battalion, CEF, and was wounded while in combat.

During the Second World War, he served in Ontario and in Hong Kong with Force C. He had 661 days of service, including 177 overseas.

Additional citations

First World War: British War Medal, Victory Medal.</P>
<P>Second World War: 1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 63 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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