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Herbert Augustine Carter : ウィキペディア英語版 | Herbert Augustine Carter
Major Herbert Augustine Carter VC (26 May 1874 – 13 January 1916) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was the son of the vicar of St Erth in Cornwall and served in two campaigns in East Africa.〔Mee, Arthur (1937) ''Cornwall''. London: Hodder & Stoughton; p. 213〕 == Details == Carter was 29 years old, and a lieutenant in the Indian Mounted Infantry, Indian Army, during the Third Somaliland Expedition when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 19 December 1903 during a reconnaissance at Jidballi, British Somaliland, when two sections were retiring before a force of Dervishes who outnumbered them by thirty to one, Lieutenant Carter rode back alone, a distance of 400 yards, to the assistance of an Indian private who had lost his horse and was closely pursued by a number of the enemy. The man was so badly wounded that it took three attempts to get him on to the horse. In a later incident he saved another soldier by shooting a lion with his last cartridge. In the Great War having been promoted Major he arrived at Mombasa already ill with fever and then marched inland through barren country in intense heat but died from heat exhaustion in Mwelo Mdogo, British East Africa before the unit was able to engage the enemy forces.〔Mee (1937); p. 213〕
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