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33rd Battalion AIF

Lance Sergeant: 394 Arthur Harding CARTER

Born: 1890. Uralla, New South Wales, Australia. Birth Cert: 34594/1890

Married: 1916. West Maitland, New South Wales, Australia.Marriage Cert: 1404/1916

Wife: Elsie M Carter. nee: Nixon

Died: 20th March 1917. Killed in Action Armentieres, France

Father: Henry Carter,

Mother: Ellen Carter. nee: Lillicrap.

INFORMATION

Arthur Harding Carter enlisted with B Company 33rd Battalion AIF on the 3rd of January 1916 with the rank of Corporal and left Sydney on board HMAT A74 "Marathon" on the 4th of May 1916. arriving there in early July, the battalion spent the next four months training. He crossed to France in late November, and moved into the trenches of the Western Front for the first time on 27 November, just in time for the onset of the terrible winter of 1916-17 Tragically, Arthur Harding Carter was Killed in Action at Armentieres, France - while fighting on the Western Front - on 20th March, 1917. Arthur is commemerated in perpetuity by the Commonweath War Graves Commission. Link to Cite Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres, France.

Arthur was a Stock Dealer from Uralla upon enlistment and lived at the Commercial Hotel in John Street with his wife Elsie prior to enlistment.

(Framed Photograph; URALLA Military Museum) May 2007.

FAMILY INFORMATION
Arthur's middle name was from his Great-Grandfather Harding Penfold. (Information supplied by Ally McRae).
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