FORBES, Finlay
| Service Number: | 998 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 September 1914, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Fairbank, Ross-shire, Scotland, 30 December 1890 |
| Home Town: | Pingelly, Pingelly, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Marybank Public School, Urray, Ross-shire, Scotland |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 25 April 1915, aged 24 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" No known grave Panel 35, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Brookton District War Memorial, Kings Park Western Australia State War Memorial, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 998, 12th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Blackboy Hill, WA | |
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| 2 Nov 1914: | Involvement Private, 998, 12th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Nov 1914: | Embarked Private, 998, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Medic, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Arrived in Australia aged 20 years
Son of Roderick and Jessie Forbes of Fairburn, Mur of Ord, Ross-shire, Scotland
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Served a 5 year apprenticeship with Patterson & Bearly Hardware
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
His brother, Private Duncan Forbes[MiD], Service Number 1003, aged 23 fell in action only weeks later on 25th May 1915 in the same theatre of war and rests in Shrapnel Valley Cemetery in Grave III. D. 31.
He is one of four Australian soldiers of the Great War remembered on the Muir of Ord War Memorial-his brother Duncan being one of them.
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
A third brother also died,
S/12054 Lance Corporal Donald Laurie Forbes(recorded as O D L by CWGC) 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders died 14 July 1916, in Iraq, age 23. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Forbes, of Fairburn, Muir-of-Ord, Ross-shire. Grave/Memorial Reference: II. B. 14. Cemetery: Amara War Cemetery, Iraq.
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