For directing and conducting counter battery fire while exposed to enemy artillery fire, July 14 in France, Lt. Meredith Carter was awarded the bronze star.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Sunday, November 26, 1944, Page 4
MADE FIRST LIEUTENANT
Lt. Meredith M. Carter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Carter, 414 Huntington avenue, has been promoted from second to first lieutenant, according to a letter to his wife, Mrs. Marian Carter, 199 Glen avenue.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Tuesday, January 02, 1945, Page 6
LOCAL OFFICER KILLED IN ACTION [photo]
1st Lt. Meredith M. Carter, 199 Glen avenue, was killed in action with the 9th army on Jan. 9, according to word received here Monday by his wife, the former Marian Dahl.
He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Carter, 414 Huntington avenue, and the fathers of a seven-months-old daughter.
Lt. Carter, an artillery officer, has been in the army since 1942. He won the bronze star for meritorious service last July in France. He was graduated from officers’ candidate school at Fort Sill, Okla., in February, 1943, and had been overseas since March, 1944.
He was graduated from Abraham Lincoln high school in 1935.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Monday, January 22, 1945, Page 5
Plan Memorial for Lt. Carter
Memorial services for 1st Lt. Meredith M. Carter, killed in Belgium Jan. 9, will be held at the 11 a.m. worship hour at the First Baptist church, First avenue and Sixth street. The Rev. A. H. Nelson, pastor of the Bethel Baptist church of Harlan will assist the Rev. William Allan at this service.
Lt. Carter was the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Carter and the husband of Mrs. Marian Cater. He had not seen his small daughter, Jane Christine.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Saturday, January 27, 1945, Page 3
Bodies of 10 War Dead to Be Returned
The bodies of two Council Bluffs servicemen will be returned here for burial from Europe aboard the United States army transport Haiti Victory, the department of the army announced Saturday. They are 1st Lt. Meredith Carter and 2nd Lt. George H. Pogge. Eight southwest Iowa men will be returned at the same time.
Lt. Carter was killed in action January 9, 1945 while serving with the 9th army in Belgium. An artillery officer, he was inducted into the army in 1942.
Lt. Carter was awarded the bronze star medal for meritious (sic) service in France, in July, 1944, and was posthumously awarded the silver star for gallantry in action from January 7-9, 1945.
A 1935 graduate of Abraham Lincoln high school, Carter is survived by his widow, Marian, and four-year-old daughter, Jane, of 199 Glen avenue; and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Cater, 414 Huntington avenue.
[Lt. Pogge’s portion of the article has been omitted but is included on his individual webpage of this site.]
Following are southwest Iowa men being returned and their next of kin:
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Sunday, May 08, 1949, Page 12
OBITUARIES
Lt. Meredith Carter
The body of 1st Lt. Meredith M. Carter arrived in Council Bluffs Thursday morning for burial.
Lt. Carter, 26, husband of Mrs. Marian Carter, 199 Glen avenue, was killed in action Jan. 9, 1945, while serving as artillery officer with the Ninth army in Belgium.
Private funeral services will be held Friday morning at 11 a.m. at the Beem-Belford funeral home with the Rev. C. Carson Bransby, pastor of the First Presbyterian church officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Lawn cemetery.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Monday, May 09, 1949, Page 18
Link to a Letter written by Lt. Carter & received after his death by his family in Iowa.
