{"id":798,"date":"2012-03-20T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/?page_id=798"},"modified":"2025-01-10T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T12:01:08","slug":"lawrenc-stanley-carrick","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trinity.cumbria.sch.uk\/warmemorials\/old-boys\/lawrenc-stanley-carrick\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Stanley Carrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-798\" data-postid=\"798\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-798 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_ijph835 tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-2 tb_49k6835 first\">\n            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His father and grandfather were solicitors. They were comfortably off living in a large family home at Brampton with servants. His father died when Lawrence was eight years old. The family seem to have been left well provided for.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div><!-- .accordion-content -->\n        <\/li>\n            <li>\n            <div class=\"accordion-title tf_rel\">\n                <a href=\"#acc-8mp3842-1\" class=\"tb_title_accordion\" aria-controls=\"acc-8mp3842-1-content\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                                                            Academic Record:                <\/a>\n            <\/div><!-- .accordion-title -->\n            <div id=\"acc-8mp3842-1-content\" data-id=\"acc-8mp3842-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"accordion-content tf_hide tf_clearfix\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_dyjg842\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column tb_oivc842 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_c1ez842   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p>After leaving the Grammar School Lawrence went to Rugby School. In 1902 he is shown as a \u201cfarmer\u2019s pupil\u201d, however he must have had an adventurous nature as he went to South Africa and joined the East Griqualand Mounted Rifles, and fought in the last year of the Second Boer War. Lawrence next tried farming in Canada. His brother John William Preston D Carrick had gone to Canada in 1896, and he and his youngest sister Eleanor Rosalind travelled out to Canada in 1908 to join him at Pine Lake, Alberta , Eleanor later married Charles Atter and settled there.\u00a0<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div><!-- .accordion-content -->\n        <\/li>\n            <li>\n            <div class=\"accordion-title tf_rel\">\n                <a href=\"#acc-8mp3842-2\" class=\"tb_title_accordion\" aria-controls=\"acc-8mp3842-2-content\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                                                            War Service:                <\/a>\n            <\/div><!-- .accordion-title -->\n            <div id=\"acc-8mp3842-2-content\" data-id=\"acc-8mp3842-2\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"accordion-content tf_hide tf_clearfix\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_rznv842\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column tb_8mpc842 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_0ggv842   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p>Lawrence next joined the Canadian Light Horse, and the North West Mounted Police. After war broke out he enlisted\u00a0on September 23\u00a01914. He joined 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Alberta Dragoons and came to Europe with the first Canadian Contingent.<\/p>\n<p>On his enlistment he is described as 5ft 5 \u00bd inches tall with fair hair and a medium complexion. He had a tiger\u2019s head tattoo on his right forearm.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence\u00a0was shot through the head by a sniper at 8am on September 15 1915, and was one of 128 members of the Alberta Regiment who died that day. His body was not recovered for burial and he is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial.\u00a0\u00a0Although his body was never identified his obituary in the Cumberland News states that he died just twenty yards from the German front. Later in the long obituary it quotes a letter from a brother officer \u201c<i>He was a most capable officer and genial companion, and beloved by everybody\u201d<\/i><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div><!-- .accordion-content -->\n        <\/li>\n            <li>\n            <div class=\"accordion-title tf_rel\">\n                <a href=\"#acc-8mp3842-3\" class=\"tb_title_accordion\" aria-controls=\"acc-8mp3842-3-content\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                                                            Battalion:                 <\/a>\n            <\/div><!-- .accordion-title -->\n            <div id=\"acc-8mp3842-3-content\" data-id=\"acc-8mp3842-3\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"accordion-content tf_hide tf_clearfix\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_64g0842\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column tb_08ku842 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_4sjc842   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p>49<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Canadian Infantry Batt<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div><!-- .accordion-content -->\n        <\/li>\n            <li>\n            <div class=\"accordion-title tf_rel\">\n                <a href=\"#acc-8mp3842-4\" class=\"tb_title_accordion\" aria-controls=\"acc-8mp3842-4-content\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n                                                            Sources:                <\/a>\n            <\/div><!-- .accordion-title -->\n            <div id=\"acc-8mp3842-4-content\" data-id=\"acc-8mp3842-4\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"accordion-content tf_hide tf_clearfix\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tb_5yox842\">\n                <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column sub_column tb_17bc842 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_30on842   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p>a)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Carlisle School Memorial Register 1264-1924<\/p>\n<p>b)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ancestry web site: Probate list 1917, 1890<\/p>\n<p>c)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Freebmd web site<\/p>\n<p>d)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Red Deer News, \u00a0Dec 13 1916, Alberta<\/p>\n<p>e)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Census:<\/p>\n<p>1901 : RG13 4827 116<\/p>\n<p>1891 RG12 4280 6 6<\/p>\n<p>1881 RG11 5149 45 16<\/p>\n<p>1871 RG10 5216 15 4<\/p>\n<p>1861 RG9 3907<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cumberland News Sept 30 1916<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div><!-- .accordion-content -->\n        <\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n\n<\/div><!-- \/module accordion -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Key Information Name:Lawrence Stanley Carrick DoB:\u00a0June 26 1882 Regt:\u00a049th\u00a0Canadian Infantry Batt DoD:\u00a0September 15 1916 Academic Career: CGS 1892 \u2013 1896 Biographical Information Family Background: Family Background: Lawrence Stanley Carrick, was the youngest of eight children born to John and Catherine Elizabeth Carrick. 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