Herbert Montagu Soames Carpenter enlisted in the Honourable Artillery Company; within days he would be commissioned Second Lieutenant and would be posted to serve with the newly-formed 10th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment. He was 29 years old and a former member of the King’s College School Officer Training Corps and had served three years with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He worked, for Messrs. Allcard & Co., as a clerk on the London Stock Exchange.
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Herbert Montagu Soames Carpenter Image by kind permission of Henry Bolton |
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