G. S. Carter a tribute to the many local people who risked their lives while aiding the prisoners of war. Carter married his wife Winifred on 12 November 1936 and they had at least one child, born in 1941. Carter was still alive in the mid-1980s; in his 2001 autobiography "Blood on Borneo" Jack Wong Sue refers to Carter as 'the late'. Carter died in Rotorua on 1 August 1988. G. S. Carter Major Gordon Senior 'Toby' Carter DSO (20 April 1910 – 1988) was a New Zealand surveyor and road engineer who worked in Sarawak, Borneo prior to World War II for
Carter (name) 274th in Scotland. People of European heritage bearing this surname may trace their ancestors back to Ireland, England or Scotland. Within the past 150 years, the Carter surname has been adopted widely by the African American taken from slavemasters by former slaves upon the Emancipation and 13th Amendment. This name is common among African Americans capable of tracing their roots back to the southern United States or Caribbean from the early 20th century onward, with some 35% of name holders of Carter in the United States being of African-American descent and it being the 22nd most common surname for Black