This memorial is in York Minster
Major Herbert Augustine Carter V.C The 101st Grenadier Indian Army
He Successfully led a relief column of the 40th Pathans
on a forced march of two days under great heat and difficulties to the relief of Mwele Mdogo sacrificing his life in this glorious devotion to duty January 13th 1916
(The above is inscribed on his memorial in York Minster and the following is from the CWGC)
Additional Information:
Died from the effects of exhaustion after effecting the relief of Mwele Mdogo, Kenya; while suffering from fever he made a forced march of two days under intense heat to reach the fort in time. Son of the late Rev. Conway R. D. Carter and Mrs. Conway Carter, of St. Erth; husband of Helen Lilian Wilmot Carter, of Mena House, St. Erth. Born at Exeter.
Citation
An extract form the London Gazette, dated 9th December., 1904, records the following - During a reconnaissance near Jidballi, on the 19th December 1903, when two Sections of the Poona Mounted Infantry and the Tribal Horse were retiring before a force of Dervishes which outnumbered them by thirty to one, Lieutenant Carter rode back alone, a distance of four hundred yards, to the assistance of Private Jai Singh, who had lost his horse, and was closely pursued by a large number of the enemy, and, taking the Sepoy up behind him, brought him safely away. When Lieutenant Carter reached Private Jai Singh, the Sections were several hundred yards off
He is buried in St Ercus churchyard, St Erth, Cornwall.
He was 41 at the time of his death
