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Lt. Arthur Edwin Fordyce
British Army King's Regiment (Liverpool)
from:Liverpool, England
Ord.Sea. James Stephen "Sonny" Foreman
Royal Navy HMS Clan McNaughton
from:Framlingham, Suffolk, England
(d.3rd Feb 1915)
My ancestor James Foreman was only 18 years old when he died and his body was never recovered. I thought that must of been so upsetting for the family not to have a body to bury or cremate. So, please I would love to know what happened because I have been searching for months and I have come to a brick wall.
Sgt Albert Turner Forester
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:I, Doxford Terrace, North Murton, Co. Durham
(d.16th Jun 1917)
Forester, Albert, Turner. Serjeant, 19/1630, Killed 16th June 1917, 32 years old.
Son of Frederick William and Dorothy Forester, of 17, Marine Approach, South Shields; husband of Ethel Ivydene Mary Forester, of I, Doxford Terrace, North Murton, Co. Durham.
Remembered on the Arras Memorial bay 2 and 3.
Shown in the 19th Btn Service History as attached to the 12th Btn N.F. Possibly killed alongside Pte Ernest Sutton also attached to the 12th Btn N.F.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour
Spr. James Honney Forfar
British Army No 3 Electric Light Company Royal Engineers
from:Cardiff
Cpl. William Form
British Army 1st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Jarrow
(d.22nd Dec 1916)
William Form was the son of John Charles and Margaret Form of 52 Duke Street Jarrow. He was born in Wallsend in 1895 he lived and enlisted in Jarrow. On the 1911 census William Form age 15 is listed as a Rivet Heater in Shipyard living with his parents John and Margaret Form at 10 Lord Street, Jarrow.
William died aged 22 on 22nd December 1916 and is buried in Cambrin Churchyard Extension.
Alfred Forman
British Army 9th Coy. Machine Gun Corps
from:Liverpool
(d.2nd June 1917)
Alfred Forman was the son of Alfred and Martha Forman, father to Charles Forman and Grandfather to Ronald Alfred Forman.
Pte. Edward Formby
British Army 17th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment
from:73 Kew Road, Birkdale, Southport
(d.2nd Nov 1918)
Pte. Andrew Bryson Forrest MM.
British Army 17th Battalion Highland Light Infantry
from:Dalkeith, Midlothian
I copy the citation verbatim describing the valour of Private A.B. Forrest from what appears to be a small typed sheet produced on a camp typewriter and now in his descendants' possession with the Military Medal that was awarded to him:
"No. 40899 Private A.B. Forrest, 17th High.L.I. This man is a messenger. On the 10th July, 1917 this man's Company were garrisoning the Pres'Quille Defences. He himself carried up all the meals for his platoon which was in the area most heavily shelled, besides carrying many messages with regard to the situation from the platoon to the Company Headquarters. Whilst taking one of these messages he found a party buried in one of the communication trenches. He immediately dug them out himself and after having done this under most intense artillery fire he lad the men to part of the line where he knew thickening was required through casualties having occurred. This man's behaviour was most gallant through the entire action. [Handwritten signature indecipherable: G.Q Roching ?] Capt. Staff Captain 97th Inf. Bde. 1st August, 1917"
Gsr. Ernest Forrest
Mercantile Marine S.S. Stonecrop
(d.24th Sep 1917)
Greaser Ernest Forrest is buried near the west boundary of Bantry Abbey Cemetery, Co. Cork, Ireland.
Pte. George Scott Forrest
British Army 1st Btn East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Leeds
(d.16th Sept 1916)
George Scott Forrest was my my paternal Grandmother’s brother and although his family home was in Leeds, at the time he went to war he was boarding in Sunderland and his occupation was Theatrical Theatre Agent. A pleasant and gentle life not comparable to the horrors of the trenches in WW1 which makes me feel so emotional. George sailed off to France from Southampton on 21st June 1916 aged 30. He landed in Le Havre 22nd June 1916. By 16 September 1916 he was dead – “missing” - and has no grave but is honoured on the Thiepval Memorial. He was in battle between 12 September – 15 September 1916 – and like many thousands of brave young men his life was destroyed mindlessly – sacrificed as ‘cannon fodder’ by the Generals conducting the event. George was blown to bits at a young age – a happy life brutally and unreasonably cut short.
George was awarded the WW1 Victory Medal - this was posthumous and would have been sent to his parents, my Great Grandparents, John and Janet. So sad. One day I mean to visit the Thiepval Memorial and lay some flowers for Uncle George.
My Grandmother, Eva Forrest never mentioned her brothers and I had assumed they were both killed in WW1 – however whilst researching George I discovered his brother Herbert emigrated to America, took part in the same theatre of war, survived and I am now in regular touch with his descendants who still live in the same area of US.
Sjt. J. Forrest
Army Durham Light Infantry
A/Cpl. J. Forrest
Australian Imperial Force. A Sect. 3rd Salvage Coy.
Gnr. Leslie Bunbury Lousaine Forrest
Australian Imperial Force 5th Australian Divisional Ammunition Column
from:Miles, Queensland
Leslie Forrest originally enlisted as a Trooper in 2nd Australian Light Horse on 24th of November 1914, and trained as part of the unit’s second reinforcement at Enogra Camp in Queensland, Australia. What is unusual is that Leslie was a British national who had emigrated to Australia, becoming a labourer working in the Outback town of Miles. What is also remarkable is he was the son of a British Army Colonel and his brother served as a British infantry officer, although his sibling died of blood poisoning in a hospital in Malta in December 1915. Also of note is that the brothers both served in the Dardanelles Campaign, though not in the same sectors. What is clear is that on reaching adulthood Leslie had chosen to live a simpler and rougher existence than the one his family had probably imagined. All the more remarkable as he was descended from Irish aristocracy on his mother’s side, having a direct link to a Kildare baronetcy. His father had also been the commandant of the Duke of York’s Royal Military School up until his death.
Leslie left the Australian Light Horse, transferring to the Royal Australian Artillery joining the 5th Australian Divisional Ammunition Column Royal Field Artillery. He appears to have transferred once he had returned to Egypt from the UK, where he had been evacuated to, after contracting dysentery in the Dardanelles. The 5th Australian Division began form up in Egypt in February 1916, after the original Australian Imperial Force had withdrawn from Gallipoli. However, delays in assembling the division’s artillery meant that it did not depart for France until June 1916. Leslie did attempt get a commission in the British Army Service Corps, but his application was rejected; not surprising as he seemed to have difficulty retaining his non-commissioned officer rank, he had asked to be reduced in rank from bombardier at one stage in his service, he retired as a gunner.
Leslie married Kathleen May Ashman in 1918 and on demobilisation in 1919 went to settle in his wife’s home county of Berkshire. She was the daughter of a Suffolk saddle-maker. Leslie lived until 1960 and probate records show him passing away on 9th February 1960 in the town of Wokingham, Berkshire. The reasons why he left his comfortable home in England to travel to the Australian Outback will never be known; one might speculate that he was uncomfortable with the family’s aspirations for him and he rebelled by heading down under. However, the irony is that he, the probable black sheep of the family, survived the war; but his elder brother Evelyn who had probably fulfilled his parents’ wishes (i.e. he excelled at Sherborne School, Corpus Christi College Oxford and as a junior officer in the Glosters) did not.
Pte. Robert Archibald Forrest
British Army 12/13th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:New Delaval
(d.25th Aug 1918)
Pte. Samuel Forrest
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.16th Feb 1915)
Pte. Samuel Forrest
British Army 1st/8th Btn Durham Light Infantry
from:Whitwell, Derbyshire
(d.24th April 1917)
Pte. Thomas Forrest
Australian Army 9th Light Horse Regiment
from:Yollunda Flat, South Australia
We found Thomas William Forrest, 9th Light Horse Infantry, 22nd Reinforcement, on Embarkation Roll number 10/14/5. We discovered Thomas William 'by accident' whilst researching our ancestors, the Hawkes family from England who had assisted passage to Adelaide in 1853. The Hawkes family married into the Forrest family. We do know he was the son of Thomas and Margaret Forrest. His brother Private James Charles Forrest was in the 27th Battalion Unit, 14th Reinforcement. Embarkation Roll Number 23/44/4. He Returned to Australia 15th May 1919.
Lt. William Henry Forrest
British Army 4th (Hallamshire) Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment
from:Sheffield
William Forrest enlisted before the war. He won various shooting awards during competitions at Bisley Ranges. During 1915 whilst fighting in France he was wounded at Armentieres. William was commissioned 2nd Lt in 1917. He joined the Royal Army Flying Corps as a pilot towards the end of the war. He crashed his plane 15th of October 1918 and sustained no injury. He finally left the military 1922 as a Lt.
CSM Wilson Forrest
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
L/Cpl. Harry Forrester
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.19th Feb 1915)
Pte. John George Forrester
British Army 26th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Craghead, Durham
Jack Forrester served in the 3rd Tyneside Irish, 26th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers and transferred to 10th Btn Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in Feb 1918. In WW2 he served with the Auxiliary Fire Service.
Pte. Thomas Forrester
British Army 4th Btn. King's Regiment (Liverpool)
(d.16th Nov 1914)
Thomas Forrester was my great granddad. He fought in the Boar War and was injured. When WW1 started he rejoined and was killed in Flanders in November 1914. I have never seen a photo of him but would love to see one.
Pte. William Forrester
British Army 1st Battalion Royal Scots
(d.12th Jan 1915)
William Forrester was the first fatality in 1st Battalion Royal Scots in WW1. He is remembered on the Ypres Menin Gate.
Pte. Thomas Wallace Forrett
British Army 21st Btn Durham Light Infantry
Served with 18th DLI
Gnr. Edward George Forsdike
British Army 86th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Tuddenham St Martin
(d.3rd October 1916)
Edward Forsdike died as a prisoner of war in Tarsus.
Carpenter. Gustav Teodor Forsell
Mercantile Marine SS Calypso
from:Hull
(d.11th July 1916)
Gustav Forsell was killed in action on the 11th of July 1916, aged 62. Commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial in London, he was the son of the late Johan Gustaf Forsell and husband of Henrietta Forsell (nee Sshultz), of 29 Edward's Place, Hull. Born at Akesund in Sweden, Gustav was a naturalised British subject.
Pte. William Forshaw
British Army Loyal North Lancahire Regiment
from:Bamber Street, Liverpool
My Uncle, William Forshaw, serving with the Loyal North Lancs, was shot on 26th October 1917 near Ypres. He was in hospital for 12 months as his wound became septic. He was certified 40% disabled and was discharged from the army on 12th November 1918. He died in March 1919 of Pneumonia and Cardiac failure. This information is from his pension Records. His death certificate has him on the Regimental Roll. I have no trace of his burial, although I do know that others sent back to the UK have CWGC headstones, there is no record of him on their site. Any help in tracing his later history would be gratefully received.
Pte William Forshaw
British Army 2/4th Btn Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
from:Preston, Lancashire
William Forshaw, enrolled on 10th December 1915 and served with 2/4th Battalion, Loyal North Lancs Regiment. He was shot in the thigh 26th October 1917 at the third Battle of Ypres.
He was in hospital for 12 months, and was discharged, with a pension of 11 shillings per week, on 12th November 1918. He was assessed as 40% disabled upon his discharge. His pension was reviewed in 1918 to 30% and then, finally, in September 1920, to under 20%.
Pte. William Henry Forshaw DCM.
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Birkenhead
William Forshaw served with 9th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers and was awarded the DCM for his actions on Messines Ridge on the 7th of June 1917 where he captured an enemy strong point.
Pte. Andrew Gerard Forson
British Army 14th tBn Scottish London Regiment
from:96 Pepys Road, New Cross, London
(d.7 Nov 1918)
Andrew Forson was born at 16 Newhall Terrace, Glasgow. He was the second child of John Mathieson Forson and Maggie Parlane Granger. He had an elder sister Janet Margaret and two younger brothers, George Alan Granger and Ian Leslie. From an early age Andrew was known by his second name Gerard. In 1904 the family moved to Liverpool initially to 23 Belmont Drive and later to 5 Radnor Place, both in Newsham Park, Liverpool. Gerard's father was minister at Crescent Chapel. From about 1909-1912 Gerard attended Holt High School, Queens Drive, Childwall, Merseyside (now Childwall Comprehensive School). Gerard's name is included on the school Roll of Honour. In 1913 the family moved to 96 Pepys Road, New Cross, London where Gerard's father was minister at Marlborough Chapel, Old Kent Road (the chapel was destroyed by bombing in April 1943 but a plaque honouring Gerard was rescued and is in the possession of his nephew). From 1912 to 1915 Gerard went to Caterham School, Surrey - a school for the sons of Congregational Ministers (his name is on the School Roll of Honour). Gerard was a scout and a member of the Caterham School and Marlborough (Old Kent Road, London) scout troops. He also a member of the School Football team and Acrobatic team.
After leaving school in the summer of 1915 and before enlisting in the Army in November 1916, Gerard was an Assistant Stock Keeper (this was stated on his enlistment form, but it is not known who he worked for). Gerard joined the military on 17 November 1916 (Army No. 514865) and became a private in the Army Reserve. He was mobilised on 3 February 1917 as a Private and posted to the London Regiment (Scottish Brigade).
Gerard left for France to join the BEF on 12th of February 1918 and joined his unit on 20 February. On 23rd of August 1918 Gerard suffered gas wounds from a shell at Boulogne. He recovered and re-joined his unit on 25th October. On 6th November Gerard was wounded in action and died in No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station, Cambrai the following day. Gerard was buried in Cambrai East Military Cemetery.
Unfortunately, news of his death did not reach the family until after the end of the war. Rejoicing that the war was over sadly changed a few days later. Gerard is also remembered in the London Scottish Regiment Book of Remembrance in Edinburgh Castle.
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