Henry Becher FORREST

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FORREST, Henry Becher

Service Number:	20080
Enlisted:	16 June 1917, First attempted to enlist when 19 years and 3 months
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	1st to 5th Divisional Signal Companies
Born:	Echuca, Victoria, Australia, March 1897
Home Town:	Echuca, Campaspe, Victoria
Schooling:	Echuca High School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Illness, Belgium, 11 February 1919
Cemetery:	Charleroi Communal Cemetery Row S, Grave No. 3
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Echuca High School Honor Roll, Echuca War Memorial, Nar Nar Goon Commercial Bank of Australia Limited WW1 Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

16 Jun 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 20080, 1st to 5th Divisional Signal Companies, First attempted to enlist when 19 years and 3 months
21 Nov 1917:	Involvement Sapper, 20080, 5th Divisional Signal Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: ''
21 Nov 1917:	Embarked Sapper, 20080, 5th Divisional Signal Company, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne
11 Feb 1919:	Involvement Sapper, 20080, 1st to 5th Divisional Signal Companies, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 20080 awm_unit: 1st Australian Division Signals Company awm_rank: Sapper awm_died_date: 1919-02-11

Sapper Henry Becher FORREST

From: In Remembrance: Hungerford and Associated Families in the Great War 1914-1918

Sapper Henry Becher FORREST
Regimental Number: 20080
Unit Name: 1st Australian Divisional Signal Company

Religion: Church of England
Occupation: Clerk
Address: Echuca, Vic.
Age at 1st Enlistment: 19 years and 3 months
Age at 2nd Enlistment: 20 years and 4 months
Enlistment Date and Place: Henry had originally enlisted on 25 April 1916, Bendigo, Vic., and was declared medically fit to serve subject to him having an operation for a hernia. After the surgery he then re-enlisted on 16 June 1917, Nathalia, Vic.
Next of Kin: Father, Mr. Henry Brand Forrest, Hare Street, Echuca, Vic.
Rank on Enlistment: Sapper
Embarkation Details: Unit embarked from Melbourne, Vic., on board HMAT A71 Nestor, on 21 November 1917. He and his brother Moritz Edward Forrest (B.2a.1b.2c) left on the same day and on the same ship. Also on the ship was Robert Hungerford Chapman (E.8.1a.8b).
Rank from Nominal Roll: Sapper
Unit from Nominal Roll: 1st Divisional Signal Company
Campaigns Served: After disembarking in Suez, Egypt, 15 December 1917, Henry was hospitalised until 23 December. Back in hospital until 30 December, before embarking on HMAT Kashgar for England, 9 January 1918. He arrived in Abbeville, France, 7 October 1918, had further time in hospital on 13 October with tonsillitis. On 17 October he rejoined his unit in the field, until 3 February 1919, when he was admitted to hospital with pleurisy and pneumonia, and transferred to the 20th Casualty Clearing Station, seriously ill, with lobar pneumonia on 4 February. He died there on 11 February 1919. Henry spent four months on the Western Front.
Fate: Died of disease (Lobar Pneumonia), 11 February 1919
Place of Death: 20 Casualty Clearing Station, Charleroi, France
Place of Burial: Charleroi Communal Cemetery (Row S, Grave No.3), Belgium
Panel Number Roll of Honour AWM: 25
Medals: British War Medal; Victory Medal. His father received his Victory Medal on 25 May 1923, Memorial Scroll on 6 July 1921, and Memorial Plaque on 29 November 1922.

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