Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookt Forrest, Engine Driver, by his wife, Isabella, dau. of Hugh Fraser; _b._ Leith, 4 Aug. 1890; educ. St. Thomas School, Leith; was a Riveter at Ramage & Ferguson's; enlisted soon after the outbreak of war, 2 Sept. 1914; went to France, 11 May, 1915, and died of wounds received in action at Loos, 25 Aug. following; _unm._ 2nd Lieut. R. B. Stewart wrote: "Your son was wounded last night when he along with some others was carrying out a difficult piece of work in front of our trenches.... He was a fine and plucky fellow and a man in whom I could place my implicit trust. He was always one of the first to volunteer if there was any 'ticklish' work to be done." =FORREST, WILLIAM LYON=, Third Writer, M. 2759, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =FORRESTER, ADRIAN ANDREW=, M.B., Fleet Surgeon, H.M.S. Implacable, only _s._ of William Forrester, of Glenmiln, Campsie Glen, co. Stirling, by his wife, Jessie Ann Hill, dau. of Archibald MacFarlane; _b._ Glenmiln, afsd., 20 Jan. 1874; educ. Larchfield, Helensburgh, co. Dumbarton, and Glasgow University, graduating M.B. in 1897; entered the Navy as a Surgeon, 8 Nov. 1898; and was promoted Staff Surgeon, 8 Nov. 1906, and Fleet Surgeon, 8 Nov. 1914. He was appointed to H.M.S. Implacable in Feb. 1914, and was killed in action at the Dardanelles 25 April, 1915. He married at Sydney, N.S.W., 20 Jan. 1904, Ruby Westwood, dau. of Charles Andrew Guesdon, of Hobart, Tasmania, and had a dau., Thelma Westwood _b._ 10 March, 1905. [Illustration: =Adrian A. Forrester.=] =FORRINGTON, CHARLES HOARE=, Signalman, J. 10092, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =FORSTER, ANDREW FORRESTER=, Private, No. 1713, 11th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 2nd _s._ of William Forster, of Mainsoflaig, Newluce, co. Wigtown, Farmer; _b._ Brownknowe, Nicolforest, co. Cumberland, 17 Sept. 1887; educ. Newluce and Stramuir; went to Australia; volunteered on the outbreak of war and joined the Commonwealth Expeditionary Force, 16 Aug. 1914; went to the Dardanelles and was killed in action there, 17 May, 1915, and buried behind the trenches; _unm._ =FORSYTH, ARCHIBALD JAMES=, L.-Corpl., No. 10/1054, 9th (Hawkes Bay) Wellington Infantry Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of Archibald William Forsyth, of Gisborne, New Zealand [a native of Scotland]; _b._ Frasertown, Wairoa, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, 6 Feb. 1894; educ. Frasertown, and High School, Gisborne, at which latter he passed the Junior Civil Service, and matriculated, gaining a first in Hawkes Bay Education Board. On leaving there he started teaching, and when war broke out was Assistant Master at Patutahi School, Gisborne. He was a Territorial and immediately volunteered and joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force; left with the main body for Egypt in Oct.; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25-26 April, and was killed in action there at Walker's Ridge, 29 April following; _unm._ Chaplain Major Grant (since killed) wrote: "His time of service was soon over, but he was of the heroic band who climbed and conquered this hill." [Illustration: =Archibald J. Forsyth.=] =FORSYTH, PETER=, A.B., J. 19371, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =FORTES, THOMAS=, Sergt., No. 7687, 1st Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., _s._ of Harry Fortes, of 4, Clark's Pace, Wilbert Lane, Beverley, by his wife, Mary Kidd, dau. of Philip Spencer; _b._ Cherry Tree Terrace, Grove Hill Road, Beverley, 25 Oct. 1888; educ. Minster School there; enlisted in the East Yorkshire Regt., 20 Nov. 1903, and joined the 1st Battn. at Shorncliffe; after a few months was drafted to the 2nd Battn. in Burmah, with which he served first in Burmah and after 1909, in India, till 1913, when he came home and rejoined the 1st Battn. at York. He was promoted Sergt., 6 June, 1914, and after the outbreak of war, went to France with the Expeditionary Force, 10 Sept., and was killed in action at Parride Hill, 28 Oct. 1914. He _m._ at Shorncliffe, 1904, Louisa, dau. of Henry Kent; _s.p._ His brother, Private William Fortes, No. 7651, was with him in this engagement and is still (1916) on active service. =FORTUNE, JAMES=, Private, No. 6844, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 4th _s._ of the late Henry Fortune, of Foxham, co. Wilts, Platelayer on the Great Western Railway, by his wife, Hannah (Little Alne, Wooten Wowen, Birmingham), dau. of the late George Lovelock; _b._ Foxham, 5 Dec. 1887; educ. there; enlisted July, 1906, and served seven years with the colours, including two in Egypt, when he passed into the Reserve and obtained employment at Farnborough. On mobilisation he rejoined, went to the Front 12 Aug. 1914, served through the retreat from Mons and the subsequent engagements, on the Aisne and the Marne, and was killed instantaneously at Rentel, by a bullet while on sentry duty 27 Oct. 1914; _unm._ While living at Farnborough he was connected with the Gospel Mission and was an earnest worker and devoted Sunday School teacher. [Illustration: =James Fortune.=] =FOSTER, ARCHIBALD COURTENAY HAYES=, Lieut., Hampshire Regt., attd. 4th King's African Rifles, 4th _s._ of the late Montagu H. Foster, of Stubbington House, Fareham, co. Hants, by his wife, Mary Henrietta Foster (The Lodge, Stubbington, Fareham), dau. of the Rev. Richard Foster Carter; _b._ Stubbington House afsd., 19 May, 1886; educ. Stubbington House and Cheltenham; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Hampshire Regt. 24 Jan. 1906; promoted Lieut. 19 Oct. 1907, and seconded for service with the King's West African Rifles, 8 Oct. 1913; took part in the Jubaland campaign, 1914, and was killed in action at Marabu, British East Africa, 19 Sept. 1914; _unm._ It appears from the official report of this action that on the night of 6 Sept. orders were given for Lieut. Foster and A Coy. King's African Rifles to start at dawn and regain touch with the enemy, Lieuts. Phillips and Hardingham, with 80 King's African Rifles, to support him. No sign of the enemy was seen on the 7th or 8th. On the 19th the three section A Coy. 4th King's African Rifles (Lieut. Foster, King's African Rifles), with one maxim, one section Somali Mounted Infantry (Capt. Isaacson, East African Rifles, and Lieut. Miles, East African Mounted Rifles), "were occupying Campa Ya Marabu. The Somalis and mules were occupying a thorn boma 'A.' and the King's African Rifles a similar boma 'B.' It was arranged between Capt. Isaacson and Lieut. Foster that, in case of attack, the mules were to be taken out of the boma 'A' and crossed over to the north bank of River Mol Turesh at point 'D' through bushes at point 'E.' A picquet, composed of Somalis, was posted at point 'G.' At 5.30 a.m. the enemy advancing up the river came into touch with the picquet at 'G.' Capt. Isaacson immediately ordered the mules across the river and then proceeded towards the picquet, shortly afterwards meeting a wounded Somali retiring o |