| Surname: | Carter |
| Initials: | G |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | P/2250 |
| Notes: | MFP. Awarded the Victory and War Medals. First served abroad (1) France, 21/1/1916. George Carter. Address: absent voters list 1918, 36 Liverpool Road, Luton, Bedfordshire. 19/8/1919 he was awarded £2 on the Purfleet No. 1 Demobilization Acquittance Roll. George Carter. Extract from the Luton News and Bedfordshire Chronicle, 7/6/1917. Policemen - Soldiers. The announcement that two more police officers of the Luton Borough Police Force have volunteered for military service affords the opportunity for considering the number of them who have gone from the Luton Borough and County Divisional Forces into the army including the latest volunteers, PC's Geo. Standbridge and John H Wood is fourteen. With the exception of these two and PC Cooper all are on foreign service. They are as follows:- L/Cpl Herbert Taylor, Pte T H Franklin, L/Cpl Geo. Carter, all of the Military Foot Police; Cpl Arthur H Weedon, Military Mounted Police. National Roll of the Great War 1914-1918, Section V, Luton, page 62. He volunteered in October 1915 and in the following year was drafted to France, During his service on the Western Front he was engaged on important military police duty behind the lines in the Somme, Arras, Ypres and Cambrai sectors. He returned home and was demobilised in August 1919, holding the General Service and Victory Medals. 36 Liverpool Road, Luton. |