Photo: Peter Holt

The family headstone reads:

In loving memory of
Stephen Hodge Carter Sgt. R.A.F.V.R.
the loved son of Stephen & Annie Carter
who was killed as the result of a flying accident
July 23rd 1943 aged 19 years.
Also the above Stephen Carter
who died March 3rd 1962 aged 77 years.
Also the above Annie Carter
who died December 23rd 1974 aged 82 years.

He was the navigator on a Armstrong Whitworth Whitley V of 91 Group 24 Squadron OTC, taking part in bombing practice when it crashed into high ground near Stratford-on- Avon.

Acknowledgments: Peter Holt

Stephen Hodge Carter is remembered in Sunderland on S140.078, in Monkwearmoth in M46.06 and on panel 18 at the International Bomber Command Centre in Lincolnshire

International Bomber Command Centre
The CWGC entry for Sergeant Carter