Nelson Victor Carter
Company Sergeant Major, 12th Battalion. Royal Sussex Regiment
- Register No.
- 190 (Alf's numbering, from The Register of the Victoria Cross, 1997)
- Rank
- Company Sergeant Major all Company Sergeant-Majors →
- Unit
- 12th Battalion. Royal Sussex Regiment all Royal Sussex Regiment VCs →
- Date of action
- 30 June 1916 on this day → all of 1916 →
- Conflict / campaign
- First World War
- London Gazette
- 9th September 1916 on this day → all of 1916 →
- Born
- 9th April 1887 at Eastbourne
- Died
- 30th June 1916 (killed in action)
- Award
- Posthumous all posthumous VCs →
- Memorial / grave
- R.I. Rifles Churchyard, Laventie, France; On the regimental memorial Chichester Cathedral and on the War Memorial, Hailsham, Sussex
Digest of citation
On 30th June 1916 at Boar's Head , Richebourg l'Avoue, France, during an attack Company Sergeant-Major Carter was in command of the 4th wave of the assault. Under intense shell and machine-gun fire he penetrated, with a few men, into the enemy's second line and inflicted heavy casualties with bombs. When forced to retire into the enemy's first line, he captured a machine gun and shot a Gunner with his revolver. Finally, after carrying several wounded men in to safety, he was himself mortally wounded and Died on in a few minutes
From Alf Askin's research notes
Reproduced as Alf wrote it, c. 2000–2005. Spelling and abbreviations are his own.
CARTER, Nelson Victor. (Reg No. 190).
Company Sergeant Major 12th Battalion. Royal Sussex Regiment.
London Gazetted on 9th September 1916.
Born on 9th April 1887 at Eastbourne.
Died on 30th June 1916 (killed in action).
Memorials at R.I. Rifles Churchyard, Laventie, France; On the regimental memorial Chichester Cathedral and on the War Memorial, Hailsham, Sussex.
Digest of Citation reads: On 30th June 1916 at Boar's Head , Richebourg l'Avoue, France, during an attack Company Sergeant-Major Carter was in command of the 4th wave of the assault. Under intense shell and machine-gun fire he penetrated, with a few men, into the enemy's second line and inflicted heavy casualties with bombs. When forced to retire into the enemy's first line, he captured a machine gun and shot a Gunner with his revolver. Finally, after carrying several wounded men in to safety, he was himself mortally wounded and Died on in a few minutes.
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Alf recorded the memorial as: R.I. Rifles Churchyard, Laventie, France; On the regimental memorial Chichester Cathedral and on the War Memorial, Hailsham, Sussex
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