Abingdon and the First World War
Those Who Served
Carter
Alfred Carter
Details from the Abingdon Roll of Honour
Name: CARTER, Alfred
Status: Died
Address: 28 The Abbey
Rank: Private
Service No: 8739
Battalion, Ship or Squadron: 3rd Garrison
Regiment: Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Chronology: from August 1914
Cause of Death: Died wounds
Place at death: Portsmouth Hospital
Date of death: 4 January 1915
Born: Newbury
Enlisted: Reading
Resident: Abingdon
Buried or Commemorated: Buried in EASTNEY (OR HIGHLAND ROAD) CEMETERY, PORTSMOUTH, Hampshire.
Reference: Plot K. Row 11. Grave 6.
There are entries in the Roll of Honour for other Abingdon men with this surname. To find them go to
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