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Son of Captain Charles Hiram Forbes and Laura Etta Spinney, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Husband of Jennie Takerman, of Nova Scotia.
Brother of Corporal Howard Waldo Forbes, regimental number 3255785, 1st Battalion, New Brunswick Regiment, Canadian Corps of Engineers, Canadian Expeditionary Force, who arrived in France after the Armistice, Private Charles B. Forbes, conscript in the American Army, regimental number 1088, without having taken part in the combat, Private Arthur Hiram Forces, regimental number 85711, of the 23rd Battery of the Canadian Field Artillery, fighting in France and Belgium, Private Kenneth Lamont Forbes, conscript in 1942 in the American Army, regimental number 1229, without having taken part in the combat.
During the First World War, Percy enlisted on 17 April 1916 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, with the 175th Overseas Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, regimental number 696686. Transferred to the 31st Battalion, he fought in France where he was wounded on 27 May 1917. He was demobilized on June 1, 1919 in Regina, Saskatchewan.
A member of convoy SC-48, the Vancouver Island was torpedoed at 22:49 on 15 October 1941 and sank quickly at 23:17 West of Ireland, position 53°37'N/25°37'W.
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Page 136 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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