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Corporal ALEXANDER FORBES

Service Number: 2820779
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Seaforth Highlanders

5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 02 August 1943

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY

IV. G. 19.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of Donald and Jemina Forbes; husband of Elizabeth Fraser Forbes, of Inverness.
  • Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER
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Buried or commemorated at

CATANIA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2142
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