Date of birth:

March 2nd, 1921 (Burketon/Ontario, Canada)

Date of death:

July 9th, 1944 (Tilburg)

Mentioned on:

Air Forces Memorial Runnymede

Nationality:

Canadian

Roy was born on March 2, 1921 in Burketon Ontario, the son of John Carter (English) and Agnes Beatrice Carter nee Coates of Burketon. They were married on November 1 (year unknown) in Toronto. His brothers were George R. (CAO), Robert C. (CAO) and Frederick J. Carter and his sisters were Ethel A. and Isabel A. Carter.

He was a schoolteacher and member of the Church of England. His sports were hockey, baseball, badminton and physical training.

He served as a Private from July 1940 till September 1940 with the 2nd Midland Regiment of the Non-Permanent Active Militia of Canada. He enlisted on May 30 1942 then the RCAF in Toronto and he went on September 1 1943 thereafter overseas to the UK.

Roy was killed on Sunday July 9 1944 age 23. He was crashed on June 17 1944 earlier near the Groote Heide bij Nistelrode before or after an attack on Sterkrade near Oberhausen in Germany. He could evade then at the home of Mrs. A. van Lankvelt of a family in Boekel and he was killed on July 9 1944 thereafter by the Germans in Tilburg and he was probably cremated afterwards with a RAF and RAAF crew member in the SS Concentration Camp in Vught. He is missed since then and he is mentioned therefore at the Runnymede Memorial in England. The other fallen RCAF crew members and buried then at the Uden War Cemetery were F/O Glenn A Blachford age 27 in grave 5-B-2, F/O Spencer W. Lough age 29 in grave 5-B-1 and F/O Innis L.F. Gould age 19 in grave 5-A-7. The other RAF crew member Sgt J. Kennedy survived the crash and he became then a prisoner of war as well as the other RCAF crew member Sgt D.H. Hattey. The other RCAF crew member Sgt. Masdin also survived the crash and he could evade and he was arrested on July 22 1944 as a prisoner of war in Antwerp Belgium and he survived the war.

He was awarded on August 6 1943 The Air Navigator’s Badge and he was awarded on June 13 1946 posthumously Mentioned in Dispatches.

Roy was honoured on November 9 2009 by the renaming of Crestview Park to the Roy E. Carter Memorial Park in the township of Scugog in Port Perry Ontario. He is also commemorated on a large memorial stone in Tilburg where he was discovered and killed by German soldiers.

He served with the 431 Sqdn. Royal Canadian Air Force.

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