EDWARD DAVIS CARTER  was serving as Gunner with "C" Battery, the 162nd Brigade, The Royal Field Artillery when he killed in action on 12th December 1917. He was aged 24 and is buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery.

He was the son of Mrs. Ellen Carter, of Fletcher House, North Newington and had been a journeyman bread maker.

He enlisted into the 4th Territorial Battalion, The Oxfordshire Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 3rd August 1914. He was posted to the Royal Field Artillery arriving with 162nd Brigade in France 6th December 1915, under the orders of 33rd Division Division. They saw action in the Battle of Albert from 1st July 1916 and other phases of the Battle of the Somme. In 1917 they fought in the Battles of Arras and the Third battle of Ypres. He was killed in action in the Passchendaele area and originally buried in Waterloo Farm, being re-interred after the Armistice

Steve Kingsford