MAJOR ALGERNON L BONHAM CARTER

Major Algernon Lothian Bonham-Carter was born in 1888 in Hampshire, educated at Winchester and commissioned to the KRRC in 1907. He became Brigade Major, 42 Infantry Brigade in Oct 1917 and was mentioned four times in dispatches. He was awarded the DSO June 1918. In 1919 he joined 1st Battalion on the Rhine after which attended Staff College, Camberley from 1921-1922. This is the time that he was at Piper's Field, although he was shown as an absent voter for those years. He became a Colonel in the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and retired in 1945.

He married Myra E M F Randolph in 1914 and died in 1957 in Buriton, Hants. After his death, his second wife, Rosalie Benoni Bonham Carter (nee Pegram) sought to have a plaque to his memory placed in the local church at Buriton. Some parishioners objected to having a plaque to the Colonel because he was divorced and had remarried during the lifetime of his former wife. The matter went before a consistory court, who allowed the plaque to proceed.

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