The Northern Echo 22/04/1940 reports:
The funeral took place yesterday at Deaf Hill Cemetery of Sergt. Pilot Robert Frederick Carter, aged 27 years, son of Mrs C. Carter and the late Frank Carter of Coronation Terrace Deaf Hill, Trimdon Station. he joined the RAF ten years ago. The Rev. G.H. Spiller officiated at the funeral.
Sgt. Carter was serving with 144 Squadron. He was a crew member of Hampden I L4163 PL- which took off from Hemswell on Operation Gardening but crashed into a cottage killing all four crew.
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War, 1939-1940. W.R. Chorley; 1992; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 85 7
Robert Frederick Carter is remembered at Trimdon Station in T66.02, T66.05 and at Trimdon Village in T58.07
He is also remembered in a RAF Book of Remembrance
