Street to be renamed in teenage soldier's memory

Denise Carter said it was an "honour" that a Nuneaton street would be named after her son Louis

A teenage soldier who was killed in Afghanistan is to have a street named in his memory.

Fusilier Louis Carter died in Helmand Province in August 2009, while trying to save another soldier.

Clinic Drive, in the Riversley Park neighbourhood of Nuneaton where he grew up, will now be renamed after him following a decision by Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council.

“That’s an honour for me and for Louis,” his mother Denise said.

Ms Carter recalled the morning in 2009 that two men turned up on her doorstep, while she was still in her pyjamas, and asked her if she was Fusilier Louis Carter’s mother.

They then told her that he had been killed in the early hours of the morning.

“I just didn’t know what to say - I just sat, numb,” she told BBC CWR.

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She said naming a street in Riversley Park after her son was particularly poignant, because “it was just such a happy place for him.”

Ms Carter, who still lives close by, recalled how Louis had picnics and played football in the park, as well as going to the local nursery and school.

“That area, it’s all about Louis,” she said.

“[It's] where he was christened, where he was buried, where he played.”