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DelBoy
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Location: The County of Angus
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 Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:58 pm Post subject: Capt Robert Edgar Forrester |
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A chancel screen located in St James Episcopal church, Cupar.
UKNIWM No: Unlisted
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF
ROBERT EDGAR FORRESTER CAPT
THE BLACK WATCH
KILLED IN ACTION 15TH JUNE 1915
BURIED AT CUINCHY AGED 38
  
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DelBoy
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Location: The County of Angus
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| Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:59 pm Post subject: Capt. Robert Edgar Forrester |
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Name: FORRESTER
Initials: R E
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Date of Death: 16/06/1915
Additional information: Husband of Iola Forrester, of Cleeto, Cupar, Fife.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. B. 20.
Cemetery: CUINCHY COMMUNAL CEMETERY
The War Diary seems to support the date of his death as the 15th and not the 16th.
(1st Btn War Diary) "15th May: Captain R.E. Forrester, commanding D company shot through the head 6.20pm."
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john burnett
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Location: Fife
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| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:32 pm Post subject: Forrester |
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Thanks to Mrs Aase Goldsmith for photos and information.
UKNIWM 57987
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