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	Lieutenant-Colonel '''John Fillis Carré Carter''' [[Order of the British Empire\|CBE]] (11 January 1882–14 July 1944) was [[Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis\|Assistant Commissioner "A"]] of the [[London]] [[Metropolitan Police]], responsible for administration and uniformed policing, from 1 November 1938<ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=34566\|page=6813\|date=1 November 1938}}</ref> to September 1940.<ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=34940\|page=5406\|date=6 September 1940}}</ref>		Lieutenant-Colonel '''John Fillis Carré Carter''' [[Order of the British Empire\|CBE]] (11 January 1882–14 July 1944) was [[Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis\|Assistant Commissioner "A"]] of the [[London]] [[Metropolitan Police]], responsible for administration and uniformed policing, from 1 November 1938<ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=34566\|page=6813\|date=1 November 1938}}</ref> to September 1940.<ref>{{London Gazette\|issue=34940\|page=5406\|date=6 September 1940}}</ref>

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Lieutenant-Colonel '''John Fillis Carré Carter''' [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (11 January 1882–14 July 1944) was [[Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis|Assistant Commissioner "A"]] of the [[London]] [[Metropolitan Police]], responsible for administration and uniformed policing, from 1 November 1938<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34566|page=6813|date=1 November 1938}}</ref> to September 1940.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=34940|page=5406|date=6 September 1940}}</ref>

Carter was the son of Major Charles Carré Carter (1850–1888) of the [[Royal Engineers]]. He was educated at [[Wellington College, Berkshire|Wellington College]] and the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]. Having passed out as Queen's Cadet, he was commissioned a [[Second Lieutenant]] into the [[Indian Staff Corps]] on 28 July 1900.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27214|page=4656|date=27 July 1900}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27398|page=392|date=17 January 1902}}</ref> He served in [[Waziristan]] in 1901–1902 and was seconded to the [[Indian Police Service]] in [[Burma]] in 1905. He was promoted [[Lieutenant]] on 28 October 1902, and [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]] on 28 July 1909 (by which time he was serving with the [[35th Sikhs]]).<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=28294|page=7357|date=5 October 1909}}</ref> In the [[World War I|First World War]] he served as a GSO2 ([[staff officer]])<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30558|supp=y|page=2849|date=5 March 1918}}</ref> on the [[Imperial General Staff]], reaching the rank of [[Brevet (military)|Brevet]] [[Lieutenant-Colonel]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31094|supp=y|page=65|date=31 December 1918}}</ref> and being [[mentioned in despatches]] twice. In 1915 he married Gwendolyn Marjorie Georges; they had a son, Captain John Ralph Carré Carter, and a daughter, Joan M. Carter.

He joined the Metropolitan Police in 1919, although he did not formally retire from the army until 1921.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32380|page=5360|date=5 July 1921}}</ref> He worked for the [[Directorate of Intelligence (UK)|Directorate of Intelligence]], where he was Assistant Director under [[Basil Thomson]].<ref name="W&A">{{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Ray|last2=Adams|first2=Ian|title=Special Branch: A History: 1883-2006|date=2015|publisher=Biteback Publishing|location=London}}</ref> He was then appointed [[Deputy Assistant Commissioner]] on 24 October 1922. In 1933 he took command of No.2 District (North-West London), based at [[Paddington]].

In 1923, Carter was made a Cavalier of the [[Order of St Maurice and St Lazarus]] by the [[King of Italy]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=32801|page=1493|date=2 March 1923}}</ref> He was appointed [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the 1925 Birthday Honours.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=33053|supp=y|page=3775|date=2 June 1925}}</ref>

Carter died in [[Tavistock, Devon|Tavistock]], [[Devon]], aged 62.

==Footnotes==
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==References==
*Obituary, ''[[The Times]]'', 17 July 1944

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