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Military service
Service number:
487374
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Birth:
June 22, 1889
Death:
October 30, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10 - 58
Additional information
Son of Robert and Ann Forrester, of 31, Lord St., Carlisle, England; husband of Mary Forrester, of 17, Elgin Terrace, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Digital gallery of Private Oliver Forrester
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Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Panel 10 of the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen newspaper c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Ottawa Citizen newspaper c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Oliver Forrester
Digital gallery of
Private Oliver Forrester
Digital gallery of
Private Oliver Forrester
Digital gallery of
Private Oliver Forrester
Digital gallery of
Private Oliver Forrester
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 238 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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