The First World War
Officers of The Royal Canadian Regiment

Lt.-Col. Albert Edward Carpenter

Soldiers of the First World War database entry - A.E. Carpenter

Lieut. A.E. Carpenter (1894)

Lieut.-Col. A.E. Carpenter (1912)

Colonel A.E. Carpenter

Service:

• Regimental service 1889-1913
• South African War, Lieutenent with 2nd (Special Service Bn.) The RCR; Queen's South African Medal with three (4?) clasps (Johannesburg, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, (?))
• Maj., No. 2 Depot, Stanley Barracks, Toronto, Ontario, 1911
• Commanding Officer, Royal School of Infantry (Toronto), 1911
• Maj., "I" Company, Stanley Barracks, Toronto, Ontario, 1912
• Commanding the Royal School of Infantry, Toronto, 1912
• Great War (BWM)
• Commanding Officer: 1 Jan - 6 Sep 1915
• Appointed Officer Commanding of a Reserve Battalion created to act as a Depot for The R.C.R. and the P.P.C.L.I., Sep 1915
• Taken on strength supernumary to establishment, 30 Jul 1917.
• Struck off strength on transfer to England and posted to the Nova Scotia Regimental Depot (N.S.R.D.) 21 Nov 1917
• 3rd Cdn. Div., 28 Nov 1917

Funeral - Colonel A.E. Carpenter - 30 Oct 1933 (Extract from the Bermuda Paper regading the funeral of the late Colonel A.E. Carpenter, The R.C.R.)

Yesterday the mortal remains of Colonel Albert Edward Carpenter, formerly Officer Commanding The Royal Canadian Regiment, were laid to rest in Paget Church Yard when an impressive military funeral was held.

Althogh having retired from active service for many years, military honours were accorded a gallant soldier and the Nothumberland Fusiliers carried out a ceremony that made a striking impression on all present.

The cortege left Edgeners, Paget, at 3.00 p.m. and the gun carriage, with coffin draped in the Union Jack, was escorted by a military guard furnished by the Northumberland Fusiliers, a firing party and a bugler from that Regiment.

The six pall-bearers were Colonel Bateman, D.S.O., M.C., the Brigade Major, Captain W.W. Haddock, Major A.R. Barlas, R.A.M.C., Captain george Wilson, R.A.O.C., Major P.S. Ingham, M.M., B.V.R.C., and Captain D.S. Lindsay, M.C., Northumberland Fusiliers.

The military escort was under the command of Captain T.M. Scanlon, M.C., Northumberland Fusiliers.

His Excellency the Governor and G.O.C., was represented by Lieut, the Lord Carew, A.D.C., the Naval Commander-in-Chief's representative was Lieut. Whitford, H.M.S. Danae.

The service was conducted by the Rev. Archdeacon Marriott assisted by the Rev. C.H. Gibbs, and was attended by a large congregation representing every section of the community. Many members of the War Veterans Association were present. Mr. Batyard Dill, Rear Commodore of the Royal Bermuda yacht Club, of which the deceased was an old member, attended in the absence of the Commodore, Mr. Ambrose Gosling, and many societies were also well represented.

At the conclusion of the service, the firing party fired three volleys with splendid precision and the bugler sounded the "Reveille" and the "Last Post."

The Chief mourners were Mrs. Carpenter and her son and she was accompanied by many close friends. the many beautiful floral tributes bore testimony to the esteeem in which the deceased was held, and they included wreaths from His Excellency, the Governor and the Garrison.

So gallant a soldier and charming gentleman was laid to rest and he will long and lovingly be remembered by a host of admirers and friends.

Date of Birth - 2 Sep 1867