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Military service
Service number:
109342
Age:
23
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
August 26, 1893
Death:
June 2, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. James Forbes, of Bleachfield House, Persleyden, Woodside, Aberdeen, Scotland. His brothers, Joseph and Gilbert, also fell.
Digital gallery of Private Walter Grant Forbes
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Press Clipping
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Memorial
Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of WALTER GRANT FORBES
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Grant Forbes
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Grant Forbes
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Grant Forbes
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Grant Forbes
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Grant Forbes
Digital gallery of
Private Walter Grant Forbes
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 87 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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