In Memory Of

CARTER, ALFRED SAMUEL

Service Details
Age:
 22
Date of Birth:
 1920-03-22
Service No:
 330689
Rank:
 Sub-Lieutenant
Unit:
 H.M. Submarine Triton
Regiment:
 South African Naval Forces
Date of Death:
 1942-11-28
Cause of Death:
 Reported missing, presumed killed, in the loss of the Greek submarine Triton.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Panel 74, Column 1.
Cemetery:
 PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 Devon
Country:
 United Kingdom
Additional Information
Son of Victor Charles and Rosina Letitia Carter (nee Dicks). Husband of M. Carter, of Durban, Natal, South Africa. Born Ladysmith, Natal. Educated Mansfield Road School, Durban; General Botha Cadet Draft 1934-5. In 1936 Alfred Samuel Carter joined the Bank Line, and in 1941 became a Sub-Lieutenant in the Seaward Defence Force, where he remained for a year. He then joined the RNR, was afterwards transferred to the SANFVR.