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This tribute is to 21029808 Trooper Walter Carter - Age 29, who was killed as a result of enemy action on the 27th. Janury 1959 on the Jebel Akhdar in Northern Oman.
This information is kindly provided by his son Terry visited his fathers grave on the 7th. July 2000.
Walter first enlisted in the territorial army in 1947 and joined the General Service Corps., transferred to the Devonshire Regiment but in 1949 he was released to the Army Reserve and eventually discharged in 1949.
In 1953 he re-enlisted into the regular Devonshire Regiment and was posted to their depot. A short while after obtaining the rank of Lance Corporal he volunteered for service with the Special Air Service Regiment whom he joined in July 1956.
He saw service in the Far East from 1956 to 1959 and it was whilst on this most secret operation in Oman at the time, that he died of the wounds he received.
A very sad loss to his wife Mary, his family, friends and comrades.
Walter is buried in a foreign field where he fell as was the British Army Tradition at the time.
His grave is in the Christian Cemetery at Ruwi which is found in between 2 churches; the Catholic Church and the Protestant Church, up road 2503 from the Al Burj Street Roundabout. The best way to find road 2503 is to ask for the road which leads to the Indian Temple.
It should be noted that two other members of the SAS are buried in Ruwi Cemetery and they are Trooper A. Bembridge and Captain Eddie Vuterakis of the Sultans Armed Forces and they will be remembered in separate tributes.
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