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Serjeant JOHN FORRESTER

Service Number: 290690
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

1st/7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 30 April 1917

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY

II. J. 3.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Janet Forrester, of Ceres, Cupar, Fifeshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE LIVED A NOBLY LIFE HE DIED A NOBLE DEATH
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Buried or commemorated at

WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3036
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