Street renamed in teenage soldier’s memory

Fusilier Louis Carter's mother Denise unveiled the new road sign at a ceremony on Saturday

A road in Nuneaton has been renamed in memory of a teenage soldier who was killed in action in Afghanistan.

Fusilier Louis Carter died in Afghanistan in August 2009, aged 18, while trying to save another soldier.

Clinic Drive, in the Riversley Park neighbourhood where he grew up, has now been named after him.

Fusilier Carter’s family, friends and comrades gathered in Nuneaton on Saturday for a ceremony to unveil the new sign.

The road is in the Riversley Park neighbourhood where Fusilier Carter grew up

Denise Carter, his mother, paid tribute to her son and said she would always cherish having a road named after him.

“This is the most poignant place it could be,” she said of the road’s location in Riversley Park.

Ms Carter has previously told the BBC about her memories of her son attending the local nursery and school, as well as playing football in the park.

The town was also celebrating its annual Normandy Day parade on Saturday, to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day.

Fusilier Carter died in Helmand Province in 2009, aged 18, while trying to save another soldier

Brig Charles Calder, who was Fusilier Carter’s commanding officer in Helmand province, also paid tribute to him at the event.

“He’d only just finished training in the April and he went to probably the toughest place in Afghanistan at the time, so it was a real baptism of fire,” he said.

“But at the same time he settled in very quickly, and he was clearly a very, very popular member of his platoon.”

Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council approved the proposal to rename the road in March.