Ezra Howard Carter was born on 11th October 1893, the son of Ezra and Fanny Carter and lived at Lilford, a few miles from Oundle. He joined Laxton School in May 1907 and left in April 1909 sat the age of 15. After leaving school, he became an apprentice probably working on Lord Lilford’s estate alongside his father.
In 1914, he enlisted in Northampton and joined the Northamptonshire Regiment and was killed on 27th September 1915 at the Battle of Loos in France, the day after his school friend Joseph Baxter, who was killed in the same battle.
Ezra Carter has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial.
He is also commemorated on the Achurch War Memorial, close to Lilford, alongside 9 other local men killed in the War.
Ezra Carter was 21 years old at the time of his death.
C Pendrill
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