“CARTER.—On the 27th November, 1918, at Victoria Hospital. Sergeant Horace Carter, beloved son of Mr. A. Carter, Somerset, England; aged 32 years.” [Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 131, 29 November 1918, Page 1]

“In March 1917 Horace had to appear before a Medical Board, which decided he was not fit enough for active service but would be useful for home service, so he was retained, with the rank of Sergeant, to work in the Quartermaster's Store. His medical condition was called haemoptysis, or spitting up blood or blood-tinged sputum from the respiratory tract.

On 12 October 1917 Horace's brother Albert became a victim of the bungled attack at Passchendaele, when he was killed in action. His name is amongst those on the NZ Memorial Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium.

Twelve months later, in October 1918, Horace was discharged from military service, a medical board having again declared him unfit from haemoptysis.

Not long after, tragedy struck Horace again when his wife Alice died, on 9 November 1918, in Kaikoura, aged 26 years. No death notice was published by the family, and it is not known if the cause of death was influenza. She was buried on 11 November in the cemetery in Kaikoura.  Horace's whereabouts at the time his wife died are not known. What is known is that he died at the Victoria Military Hospital in Newtown, Wellington on 26 November, outliving his wife by a mere 15 days. This hospital was formerly the Victoria Hospital for Chronic Invalids but was handed over to the military for soldiers returning from the war.  Horace was buried in the Soldiers’ Section of Karori Cemetery on 27 November.” [Source: https://1918influenzakarori.weebly.com/horace-carter.html, accessed 4/09/2022, researcher: Beverley Hamlin]