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{{short description|Recipient of the Victoria Cross}} | {{short description|Recipient of the Victoria Cross}} | ||
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{{Infobox military person | {{Infobox military person | ||
|name=Herbert Augustine Carter | |name=Herbert Augustine Carter | ||
|birth_date=26 May 1874 | |birth_date=26 May 1874 | ||
|death_date= {{ | |death_date= {{death-date and age|13 January 1916|26 May 1874}} | ||
|birth_place=[[Exeter]], [[Devon]] | |birth_place=[[Exeter]], [[Devon]] | ||
|death_place=Mwelo Mdogo, [[British East Africa]] | |death_place=Mwelo Mdogo, [[British East Africa]] | ||
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On 19 December 1903 during a reconnaissance at [[Jidbaale|Jidballi]], [[British Somaliland]], when two sections were retiring before a force of Dervishes who outnumbered them by thirty to one, Lieutenant Carter rode back alone, a distance of 400 yards, to the assistance of an Indian private who had lost his horse and was closely pursued by a number of the enemy. The man was so badly wounded that it took three attempts to get him on to the horse.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27742|page=8449|date=9 December 1904}}</ref> | On 19 December 1903 during a reconnaissance at [[Jidbaale|Jidballi]], [[British Somaliland]], when two sections were retiring before a force of Dervishes who outnumbered them by thirty to one, Lieutenant Carter rode back alone, a distance of 400 yards, to the assistance of an Indian private who had lost his horse and was closely pursued by a number of the enemy. The man was so badly wounded that it took three attempts to get him on to the horse.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27742|page=8449|date=9 December 1904}}</ref> | ||
In a later incident he saved another soldier by shooting a lion with his last cartridge. In the Great War having been promoted [[ | In a later incident he saved another soldier by shooting a lion with his last cartridge. In the Great War having been promoted [[major]] he arrived at [[Mombasa]] already ill with fever and then marched inland through barren country in intense heat but died from [[heat exhaustion]] in Mwelo Mdogo, British East Africa before his unit (the [[40th Pathans]]) was able to engage the enemy forces.<ref>Mee (1937); p. 213</ref><ref>{{Lives of WWI | id= 7684978 | name= Herbert Augustine Carter }}</ref> | ||
==Memorial== | ==Memorial== | ||
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[[Category:British Indian Army officers]] | [[Category:British Indian Army officers]] | ||
[[Category:British recipients of the Victoria Cross]] | [[Category:British recipients of the Victoria Cross]] | ||
[[Category:People from Exeter]] | [[Category:People from Exeter]] | ||
[[Category:British military personnel of the Third Somaliland Expedition]] | [[Category:British military personnel of the Third Somaliland Expedition]] | ||
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[[Category:Deaths from hyperthermia]] | [[Category:Deaths from hyperthermia]] | ||
[[Category:Indian Army personnel killed in World War I]] | [[Category:Indian Army personnel killed in World War I]] | ||
[[Category:Military personnel from Devon]] | |||
[[Category:Burials in Cornwall]] | |||