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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:24 am Post subject: D Forbes and St J Forbes, New Galloway |
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UKNIWM Ref: 44427
Located in St Margaret’s Episcopal church, New Galloway at OS Map Ref NX 635 779. The memorial is an Altar Rail and associated plaque.
Name: FORBES, DAVID WALTER ARTHUR WILLIAM
Initials: D W A W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Regiment/Service: Coldstream Guards
Unit Text: 3rd Bn.
Age: 37
Date of Death: 13/11/1943
Service No: 39270
Awards: M C
Additional information: Son of Charles William Forbes and of Jean Forbes (nee Hotham); husband of Diana Mary Forbes, of Lockinge, Berkshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 3.
Memorial: CASSINO MEMORIAL
Name: FORBES, ST JOHN OLIVER ALAN WILLIAM
Initials: S J O A
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: Coldstream Guards
Unit Text: 3rd Bn.
Age: 32
Date of Death: 01/06/1940
Service No: 39271
Additional information: Son of Charles William Forbes, D.L., J.P., and of Jean Forbes (nee Hotham), of Castle-Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire. Keeper of Fives, Eton College.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Plot 2. Row C. Grave 21.
Cemetery: DE PANNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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I didn't know what a Keeper of Fives was. From the Rugby Fives website..
"Rugby Fives is a game that is fast, fun and great for fitness, and can be enjoyed by players of all standards. It is played in both the singles and the doubles formats in a four-sided court. Players – using leather gloves worn on both hands – aim to hit the ball above the bar running across the front wall, so that the opposition cannot return it before the second bounce.
A Fives ball is slightly larger than a golf ball, leather-covered and hard. The court is slightly smaller than a squash court and has a stone, rather than wooden, floor. The game is played in a court enclosed by four walls. The 'front' wall has a board of wood running across it at an even height from the floor."
Pretty much all the Fives courts in the UK are in public schools.
In Eton 'Keeper' is a term sometimes used instead of Captain so St John Forbes was Captain of the Eton Fives team.
Note how the family address given in the CWGC details are different.
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spoons
Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 4991 Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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UKNIWM details checked and photos sent today.
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gourdongirl
Joined: 10 Oct 2008 Posts: 1200 Location: Musselburgh Scotland
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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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I might be wrong, but would the address on the entry for David not be that of his wife and not that of his parents, as I would presume that since he was married his wife would be NIK. That could be the reason for the two different addresses!
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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Shona
Yes, you are right, thanks for clearing up my schoolboy error!
Cheers
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