Malvern College First World War Casualty

Captain Edward Maurice Carter

Photo of Edward Maurice Carter
House and time at Malvern: No 7, 1910 - 1912.

Regiment: 11th Lancers (I. A.).
Died: 11 August 1920 aged 24 in Iraq. Treacherously killed at Tel Afar, Mesopotamia.
Cemetery: Baghdad North XVIII L8

Son of the Rev. George Charles Carter, of The Rectory, Bartlow, Cambs, b. 1896.
Middle IV—Lower Modern II.
Farm Pupil.
Great War, Private Public Schools' Batt. 1914; Lieutenant Durham L.I.; Captain I.A. 11th King Edward's Own Lancers (Probyn's Horse).

He was killed during the rising at Tal Afar in northern Iraq after that place was included in Iraq. Tal Afar was used as a base of operations for a planned revolt against the then ruling British.
Biography at undyingmemory

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