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Forbes, Alexander Stewart, 1894-1916
Forbes, Alexander Stewart, 1894-1916
GB-2014-WSA-07271 · Person · 1894-1916

Forbes, Alexander Stewart, son of Patrick Lewis Forbes, of Hampstead, by Sara Mildred Leckie, of Blackheath, Kent; b. March 29, 1894; adm. Jan. 14, 1909 (H); left July 1913; entered a firm of Anglo-Russian cotton manufacturers, and was in Russia at the outbreak of Great War I; returned heme in Oct. 1914; 2nd Lieut. wth (Reserve) Batt. the Seaforth Highlanders Nov. 9, 1914; Lieut. Oct. 7, 1915; attached to the 181st Machine Gun Co., and went out to the western front in June 1916; d. Aug. 17, 1916, of wounds received in action near Albert on the previous day.
Forbes, Benjamin, fl. 1783
GB-2014-WSA-07272 · Person · fl. 1783

FORBES, BENJAMIN; b.; adm. 29 Jul 1783. [Perhaps Benjamin Forbes, bapt. St. Margaret Moses, London 31 Jun 1770, son of William Forbes and Margaret (Mackenzie ?) (IGI)]
Forbes, David, ca. 1726-?
GB-2014-WSA-07273 · Person · ca. 1726-?

FORBES, DAVID; b.; adm. (aged 13) Jun 1739 (Hawkins'); left 1739.
Forbes, Michael, 1919-?
GB-2014-WSA-07274 · Person · 1919-?

Forbes, Michael; b. 1 Oct. 1919; adm. Sept. 1933 (A); left July 1934; RAFVR 1940 (Flt Lieut.).
Forbes, Peter Fraser Lestock, 1918-1943
GB-2014-WSA-07275 · Person · 1918-1943

Forbes, Peter Fraser Lestock, son of Sidney Lestock Forbes of Putney; b. 20 Mar. 1918; adm. May 1932 (G); left Dec. 1934; 2nd Lieut. Rajputana Rifles IA 1942; d. of wounds in Burma Feb. 1943.

Peter Fraser Lestock Forbes was born at Bournemouth, Hampshire on the 20th of March 1918 the younger son of Sidney Lestock Forbes, an engineer, and Edith Lizzie (nee Goodwin) Forbes of Putney, later of “Beggars Roost”, Seven Hills Road, Cobham in Surrey. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Grant’s from May 1932 to December 1934. He won the Pancake Greaze in 1933.
He enlisted in the army where he rose to the rank of Lance Corporal before being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Indian Army on the 28th of May 1942.
His funeral took place on the 27th of February 1943.
He is buried at Kirkee War Cemetery Plot 8, Row K, Grave 15.
Forbes, Peter, ca. 1742-?
GB-2014-WSA-07276 · Person · ca. 1742-?

FORBES, PETER; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jun 1750 (Hawkins'); in school list 1754. [Perhaps Peter Forbes, bapt. St. Andrew’s, Holborn 3 Aug 1741, son of Peter Forbes, and Jane --- (IGI)]
Forbes, William Williamson, ca. 1712-1761
GB-2014-WSA-07277 · Person · ca. 1712-1761

FORBES, WILLIAM WILLIAMSON, son of William Forbes, Tolquhon, Aberdeenshire, and Anne, dau. of John Leith, Whitehaugh, Aberdeenshire; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1725; KS 1726; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1730, matr. 22 Jun 1730, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1730 - void 19 Oct 1749, expiry year of grace as V. Thornbury; BA 1734; MA 1737; ordained deacon 22 Sep 1734, priest 5 Jun 1737 (both Oxford); Curate, Binsey, Oxfordshire 1736, St. Thomas, Oxford 1738; Vicar of Thornbury, Gloucs., from 1748; d. Sep 1761.
Ford, Charles, ca. 1740-?
GB-2014-WSA-07278 · Person · ca. 1740-?

FORD, CHARLES; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1750/1; in school list 1752.
Ford, Charles, fl. ca. 1803
GB-2014-WSA-07279 · Person · fl. ca. 1803

FORD, CHARLES; b.; in school lists May and Oct 1803.
Ford, Geoffrey Noel, 1883-1964
GB-2014-WSA-07280 · Person · 1883-1964

Ford, Geoffrey Noel, son of Everard Allen Ford, of Hampstead, by Rachel, daughter of Sir Alexander Hammick, Bart.; b. Dec. 25, 1883; adm. as Q.S. Sept. 30, 1897; left July 1901; R. M.C. Sandhurst; 2nd Lieut. unattached Aug. 27, 1902; Indian Army Jan. 10, 1904; Lieut. Nov. 27, 1904; Double Company Commander 105th Mahratta Light Infantry Jan. 13, 1904, Adjutant March 5, 1908; Capt. Aug. 27, 1911; Major Aug. 27, 1917; Brevet Lieut.-Col. Jan. 1, 1928; Col. Jan. 1, 1932; Colonel (Brigadier) of the Allahabad Brigade 1935-9; Commander, Isle of Man, 1940-3; m. Nov. 14, 1915, Katia, only daughter of Ilya Alexandra Gorkhover, of Moscow; d. 1964.