John Carter (police officer), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Assistant Commissioner "A" of the London Metropolitan Police
Date of Birth: 11-Jan-1882
Date of Death: 14-Jul-1944
Profession: police officer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About John Carter (police officer)
- Lieutenant-Colonel John Fillis Carré Carter CBE (11 January 1882–14 July 1944) was Assistant Commissioner "A" of the London Metropolitan Police, responsible for administration and uniformed policing, from 1 November 1938 to September 1940.Carter was the son of Major Charles Carré Carter (1850–1888) of the Royal Engineers.
- He was educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
- Having passed out as Queen's Cadet, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant into the Indian Staff Corps on 28 July 1900.
- He served in Waziristan in 1901–1902 and was seconded to the Indian Police Service in Burma in 1905.
- He was promoted Lieutenant on 28 October 1902, and Captain on 28 July 1909 (by which time he was serving with the 35th Sikhs).
- In the First World War he served as a GSO2 (staff officer) on the Imperial General Staff, reaching the rank of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel and being mentioned in despatches twice.
- In 1915 he married Gwendolyn Marjorie Georges; they had a son, Captain John Ralph Carré Carter, and a daughter, Joan M.
- Carter. He joined the Metropolitan Police in 1919, although he did not formally retire from the army until 1921.
- He worked for the Directorate of Intelligence, where he was Assistant Director under Basil Thomson.
- He was then appointed Deputy Assistant Commissioner on 24 October 1922.
- In 1933 he took command of No.2 District (North-West London), based at Paddington. In 1923, Carter was made a Cavalier of the Order of St Maurice and St Lazarus by the King of Italy.
- He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1925 Birthday Honours.Carter died in Tavistock, Devon, aged 62.
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