Service Details
Name:
 CARTER
Given Name:
 ALFRED SAMUEL
Initials:
 A S
Service No:
 330689
Rank:
 Sub-Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Naval Forces
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Unit:
 H.M. Submarine Triton
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Date of Death:
 1942-11-28
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Date of Birth:
 1920-03-22
Age:
 22
Cause of Death:
 Reported missing, presumed killed, in the loss of the Greek submarine Triton.
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.
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Devon
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Cemetery:
 PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 74, Column 1.

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