Born at Boxford, near Newbury, Berkshire.
Enlisted at Heston on the 9th of April 1849.
Age: 18.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Labourer.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Grey eyes. Lt. brown hair.
From Private to Corporal: 10th of May 1854.
The muster roll for the period shows him as having been "sick, on board ship" for the months of September — October, 1854. (Was at the Scutari General Depot from the 22nd of September 1854 until being sent to rejoin the regiment on the 10th of November.)
Corporal to Sergeant: 1st of January 1855.
Transferred to the 1st Battalion of the Military Train on 13th of October 1856. Regimental No. 520.
Attached to the Cavalry Depot at Canterbury. 19th of June — 31st of December 1857.
Appointed to Troop Sergeant-Major 1st of April 1859.
Re-engaged for 12 years further service on the 17th of July 1862.
Transferred to the Army Service Corps on the disbandment of the Military Train and the taking over of its functions by the new Corps.
As 3rd Class Staff Sergeant, Regimental No. 272: 21st of February 1870.
Promoted to Sergeant Major: 1st of April 1870.
Discharged from Aldershot on the 21st of January 1871 as "Free to pension, after termination of his second period of limited engagement".
Served 23 years 298 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 2 years. China, 2 years 5 months.
Conduct: "very good". Was in possession of one Good Conduct badge when promoted and would now have had five.
Never entered in the Regimental Defaulters' book. Never tried by Court-martial.
Aged 41 years 6 months on discharge.
To live in South Camp, Aldershot.
Next of kin: Wife, Sarah Carter.
He was shown on the "Married roll" of the Military Train from the 27th of March 1863. In the muster ending 1869, they had one child, aged 14 years 3 months.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Inkerman and Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
China medal with clasp for Taku Forts, 1860.
He was awarded the Long Service & Good Conduct medal on the 23rd of July 1868. The roll states, "Widow claimed the £10 gratuity."
The pension books record him as having died in the South London Pension District on the 28th of January 1874 and the St. Catherine's House Records show a man of this name as having died in the Farnham District, aged 43 years, during the January-March quarter of 1874 and this would fit in with his last known place of abode.
Somerset House records show that the time of his death he was the canteen keeper of "X" Canteen, South Camp. in the parish of Aldershot, and that in his will he left his personal estate (of under £200) to his widow, Sarah.
He was buried in the Aldershot Military Cemetery, and his erected grave-stone is one of the few remaining in the older part of the Cemetery, The inscription on it reads: "Sacred to the memory of George Carter, late Regimental Sergeant Major, Army Service Corps, who died January 28th 1874, aged 42 years and 10 months. Erected as a mark of esteem and respect by the Sergeants of the Army Service Corps." (There are photographs of this stone in the 11th Hussar file.)