ST. ERTH (ST. ERCUS) CHURCHYARD
Cornwall
England
Location Information
St. Erth is a small village located between Camborne and Hayle just off the A39.
There is one Commonwealth burial in the churchyard and is buried within a family headstone.
St. Erth is a small village located between Camborne and Hayle just off the A39.
There is one Commonwealth burial in the churchyard and is buried within a family headstone.
Major Herbert Augustine Carter, V. C. (Received the V. C. during the Third Somaliland Expedition in 1903)
101st Indian Grenadiers attached to 40th Pathans, died 13th January 1916, aged 41.
Died from the effects of exhaustion after effecting the relief of Mwele Mdogo, Kenya; while suffering from fever he made a forced march of two days under intense heat to reach the fort in time.
Son of the late Rev. Conway R. D. Carter and Mrs. Conway Carter, of St. Erth; husband of Helen Lilian Wilmot Carter, of Mena House, St. Erth. Born at Exeter.
Citation An extract form the "London Gazette," dated 9th Dec., 1904, records the following:- "During a reconnaissance near Jidballi, on the 19th December 1903, when two Sections of the Poona Mounted Infantry and the Tribal Horse were retiring before a force of Dervishes which outnumbered them by thirty to one, Lieutenant Carter rode back alone, a distance of four hundred yards, to the assistance of Private Jai Singh, who had lost his horse, and was closely pursued by a large number of the enemy, and, taking the Sepoy up behind him, brought him safely away. When Lieutenant Carter reached Private Jai Singh, the Sections were several hundred yards off."
101st Indian Grenadiers attached to 40th Pathans, died 13th January 1916, aged 41.
Died from the effects of exhaustion after effecting the relief of Mwele Mdogo, Kenya; while suffering from fever he made a forced march of two days under intense heat to reach the fort in time.
Son of the late Rev. Conway R. D. Carter and Mrs. Conway Carter, of St. Erth; husband of Helen Lilian Wilmot Carter, of Mena House, St. Erth. Born at Exeter.
Citation An extract form the "London Gazette," dated 9th Dec., 1904, records the following:- "During a reconnaissance near Jidballi, on the 19th December 1903, when two Sections of the Poona Mounted Infantry and the Tribal Horse were retiring before a force of Dervishes which outnumbered them by thirty to one, Lieutenant Carter rode back alone, a distance of four hundred yards, to the assistance of Private Jai Singh, who had lost his horse, and was closely pursued by a large number of the enemy, and, taking the Sepoy up behind him, brought him safely away. When Lieutenant Carter reached Private Jai Singh, the Sections were several hundred yards off."
