Canadian Virtual War Memorial
Clifford Carter
In memory of:
Fireman Clifford Carter
November 5, 1940
Military Service
22
Merchant Navy
Canadian Merchant Navy
S.S. Beaverford (London, England) (149983)
Additional Information
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.
Commemorated on Page 109 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.
Burial Information
HALIFAX MEMORIAL
Nova Scotia, Canada
Panel 17.
The HALIFAX MEMORIAL in Nova Scotia's capital, erected in Point Pleasant Park, is one of the few tangible reminders of the men who died at sea. Twenty-four ships were lost by the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War and nearly 2,000 members of the RCN lost their lives. This Memorial was erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and was unveiled in November 1967 with naval ceremony by H.P. MacKeen, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, in the presence of R. Teillet, then Minister of Veterans Affairs. The monument is a great granite Cross of Sacrifice over 12 metres high, clearly visible to all ships approaching Halifax. The cross is mounted on a large podium bearing 23 bronze panels upon which are inscribed the names of over 3,000 Canadian men and women who were buried at sea. The dedicatory inscription, in French and English, reads as follows:
1918-1945
IN THE HONOUR OF
THE MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE NAVY
ARMY AND MERCHANT NAVY
OF CANADA
WHOSE NAMES
ARE INSCRIBED HERE
THEIR GRAVES ARE UNKNOWN
BUT THEIR MEMORY
SHALL ENDURE.
On June 19, 2003, the Government of Canada designated September 3rd of each year as a day to acknowledge the contribution of Merchant Navy Veterans.
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Cenotaph – Barrie Cenotaph -
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Street sign – Barrie street named in honour of Fireman Clifford Carter with a poppy. -
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