Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Captain P. S. Carter, Derbyshire Yeomanry, who served during the Second World War as Aide-de-Camp to Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy and Governor-General of India
Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Capt. P. G. Carter, 29 Eaton Place, London, SW1’, extremely fine

The Victory Medal awarded to Sapper F. W. Priest, 175th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 9 February 1916
Victory Medal 1914-19 (96829 Spr. F. W. Priest. R.E.); together with an erased Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue, good very fine (4) £60-£80

Peter George Carter was born in India on 21 October 1912, the son of a tea broker, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Derbyshire Yeomanry on 12 August 1939. Presumably because of his experience in India, and other family connections, he was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy and Governor-General of India, and sailed for Bombay on the S.S. Madura in January 1941; also on that voyage was another of Linlithgow’s Aides-de-Camp, the Hon. Andrew Elphinstone, the nephew of Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) and the first cousin of Princess Elizabeth (H.M. Queen Elizabeth II). Carter was promoted Lieutenant on 12 February 1941, and served on Linlithgow’s staff until the Viceroy returned to England in 1943. Subsequently transferring to the Unemployed List, he later returned to India as a tea broker, and died in Dublin in 1980.

Frederick William Priest was born in Glascote, Tamworth, Warwickshire, in 1870. A coal miner by occupation, he enlisted in the Miner’s Section of the Royal Engineers on 26 May 1915, and served with 175th Tunnelling Company during the Great War on the Western Front form 1 June 1915. He was killed in action on 9 February 1916; he has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

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