Photograph of a head and shoulders portrait of Capt Herbert Augustine Carter VC, Indian Mounted Infantry in full dress, 1903 (c).
Associated with 101st Bombay Grenadiers, Somaliland (1901-1904).
Captain (later Major) Herbert Augustine Carter of the Poona Mounted Infantry won the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Somaliland campaign in 1903. While under fire, Carter saved a wounded Indian soldier who had been unhorsed. In 1916 Carter died of fever during the First World War campaign in East Africa.