Archibald Leonard Cater
Memorial: Yate - St Mary's Church Lych Gate
Regiment: Canadian Infantry
Medals: British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Private 730648
Parents: John Cater and Sabina Cater (nee Slade)
Home address: Pear Tree Cottage, Holloway Hill, Iron Acton, Bristol
Date of birth: 03/02/1887
Place of birth: Yate, Bristol
Date of death: 02/10/1918
Buried/Commemorated at: Bucquoy Road Cemetery (Ref: III. C. 17.), Ficheux, and Vimy Ridge, France
Age: 31
Further information:
Archie was born in Iron Acton the son of John and Sabrina Cater, his father John Cater was a railway signalman who was born in Warwickshire. There were 12 children in the family, Sarah, William, Martha, Ellen, Ivy, George, Ada-Mary, Harry, Sidney, Archibald, Albert (Frank) and Hubert. The three brothers, Archibald, Albert (Frank) and Hubert went to Canada prior to 1914 and they all returned to fight with the Ist Battalion of the Canadian Infantry, Western Ontario Regiment
All 3 died in the First World War. Hubert and Frank were killed on the same day, 22nd September 1916 and Archie in 1918. All are remembered on the Vimy Ridge Memorial near Arras in France
Archibald Leonard Cater and his two brothers are remembered on the Yate Lych Gate Memorial and the Chipping Sodbury and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital board, which is now at Yate and District Heritage Centre, under Yate
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
Yate Heritage Centre, Forces War Records and CWGC