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Able Seaman SAMUEL FORBES

Service Number: Clyde Z/2949
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Drake Bn. R.N. Div.

Date of Death

Died 03 August 1917

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY, ETRUN

VI. B. 5.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of David Forbes, of 2, Cotton Mill Row, Greenock.
  • Personal Inscription ONE HERO LESS IN GREENOCK
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Buried or commemorated at

DUISANS BRITISH CEMETERY, ETRUN
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 3295
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