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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 684

(x) Eight: Paymaster Captain A. J. Carter, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian 1909-1914 (Asst. Pay. A. J. Carter, R.N. H.M.S. Swiftsure); 1914-15 Star (Act. Payr. A. J. Carter, R.N.); British War Medal, erase; Victory Medal, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Payr. Lt. Cdr. A. J. Carter. R.N.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1911 (A. J. Carter), contemporarily engraved naming; Egypt, Kingdom, Order of the Nile, 4th Class breast Badge with rosette upon riband, by Lattes, silver, silver-gilt and enamel, very fine (8)

Order of the Nile London Gazette 29 October 1918.

Andrew Jerome Carter was born on 30 September 1884 at Lewisham and was appointed on 15 January 1902. During the Great War he was promoted Staff Paymaster in September 1915, earning a 'mention' (London Gazette 20 May 1918, refers) whilst Secretary to the Divisional Naval Transport Officer, Rouen, besides the Egyptian Order of the Nile. Advanced Paymaster Commander on 30 September 1923, he was retired with the rank of Paymaster Captain on 30 September 1934. Recalled for the Second World War, he served with H.M.S. Badger and died in Surrey in 1958.

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