Major Albert Desbrisay Carter
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Carter,
Albert Desbrisay
Date of birth: 1892-07-03
Place of birth: Pointe de Bute New Brunswick Canada
Next of kin: Mrs. Ettie Carter, Point de Bute, New Brunswick
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): student
Occupation (normalized): Other Professional, Technical and Related Workers Not Elsewhere Classified
Religion: Wesleyan
Date of death:
1919-05-22
Cause of death:
Accident
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: NA
Highest Rank:
Major
Rank detail
- Major (Air Force).
- Major (Air Force).
- Major (Air Force).
- Private, 28th Battalion, Infantry (Army). 1915-02-23 ?
- Major, 104th Battalion, Infantry (Army). 1916-06-19 ?
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Commemoration location: Fort Beauséjour Museum , Aulac, New Brunswick
Awards
Distinguished Service Order
Date of award: 1918-07-18
Distinguished Service Order First Bar
Date of award: 1918-09-16
Croix de Guerre avec Palme (Belgium)
RESEARCH INFORMATION
CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try
this.
CWGC ID: 402661
LAC ID:
620
Service file: V0023-S003
Uploader's Notes:
Croix de Guerre (Belgium). only son of Leonard and Ettie Goodwin-Carter, of Pointe de Bute, Westmoreland County, New Brunswick, Canada.
May 19, 1918 shot down behind enemy lines and taken prisoner. He was repatriated on Dec.13, 1918.
Uploader's Research notes:
Quebec Chronicle, May 26, 1919, page 3
Canadian Airman Fell to Death
London, Friday, May 23 - Major Carter, Canadian Air Forces, was killed yesterday at the Canadian airdrome at Shoreham. It is believed a wing of his machine broke, and he fell seven thousand feet. He received the Distinguished Service Order and the Croix de Guerre last year.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2009-03-20