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Forbes memorial - Taken by Maj Bob 11 Jan 2018
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Memorial & Cross - Taken by Maj Bob 11 Jan 2018
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Cross details - Taken by Maj Bob 11 Jan 2018
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Plaque inscription - Taken by Maj Bob 11 Jan 2018
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Top of Memorial - Taken by Maj Bob 11 Jan 2018
Reference WMO/283977
Edit memorial name, location & address- Metal Bronze
- Stone Marble
- First World War (1914-1918)
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TABLET - "I will get me out of my Country & from my Kindred & from my Fathers house unto a Land that God will shew me". William Alexander Stanhope Forbes Second Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion DCLI. Son of Stanhope and Elizabeth Forbes of Higher Faugan, Paul. Born at Trewarveneth, Paul 26th May 1893. Educated at Bedales School. Student of the Architect Association 1911-14. Killed leading his Platoon in a charge Guillemont on the Somme Battlefield in France 3rd September 1916. CROSS - Cross: IN/ MEMORY/ OF/ WILLIAM ALEXANDER STANHOPE FORBES / KILLED IN ACTION / SEPT 3RD/ 1916/ 2ND LIEUT 1ST BTN D C L I Additional Plaque: THIS CROSS WAS ERECTED IN 1917/BY AN R.E COMPY AT GUILLEMONT, SOMME / ON THE SPOT WHERE LIEUT W.A.S. FORBES FELL / AND WAS BURIED. WHEN LATER THAT DISTRICT / WAS CAPTURED BY THE GERMANS IT WAS ONLY / SLIGHTLY DAMAGED AND WAS FOUND ON THE / BATTLEFIELD WHEN OUR TROOPS FINALLY DROVE / THE ENEMY BACK. MOVED TO THE NEIGHBOURING / CEMETERY IN 1920, IT IS NOW REPLACED BY THE / REGULATION STONE SLAB AND WAS BROUGHT TO / THIS CHURCH IN 1925.
William Alexander Stanhope Forbes.
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