Lieutenant-Colonel Godfrey Lambert Carter, 106th Hazara Pioneers, 1915 (c)

Portrait photograph, 1915 (c).

Lieutenant-Colonel Godfrey Lambert Carter was born on 2 November 1868. Carter was a veteran of India's North West Frontier and served in Mesopotamia during World War One (1914-1918). He served in Iraq after the war and retired from the Army in August 1921.

The 106th Hazara Pioneers was formed in 1904 by Major (later Field Marshal) Claud William Jacob (1863-1948). Hazaras are an ethnic group of Mongolian origin and Muslim in religion, present in Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and Iran. The unit was raised in Quetta, a centre for Hazara refugee settlement, and was drawn largely from Hazara men from the 124th Duchess of Connaught's Own Baluchistan Infantry and the 126th Baluchistan Infantry. The regiment served in Persia and Mesopotamia during World War One (1914-1918) and in Waziristan (1919-1920).