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FORSYTH, Norman Leslie
(Service number 6/3319)

St Mary's Church, Timaru, memorial plaque, circa 2010 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.31)

Aliases
First Rank	Corporal	Last Rank	Lieutenant

Birth

Date	24/03/1891	Place of Birth	Riverton, Southland, New Zealand

Enlistment Information

Date	25 August 1915	Age	24
Address at Enlistment	Railways, Timaru
Occupation	Clerk for Railways at Timaru
Previous Military Experience	School Cadets in Invercargill. Served in Apia, Samoa
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information	Height 5' 10" Weight 159 lbs (11st 8lb) . Dark Complexion. Grey eyes, Dark Brown Hair . Small circular wound -one inch diameter - inner side of left knee

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Canterbury Infantry Battalion
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Samoan Advance Party;d Otago Regiment, 1st Battalion
Date	15 August 1914; 13 November 1915
Transport	Willochra
Embarked From	Wellington, New Zealand	Destination	Apia; Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With	Samoan Advance Party
Last Unit Served With	Otago Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns	Samoa 1914, Egyptian 1915-16, Eygptian Expeditionary Force 1916, Western European 1916-17 (incl. Messines)
Service Medals	1914-15 Star, British War Medal & Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

16 September 1914 - On Active Service was shot through left knee and right ankle through another soldier accidently discharging his rifle

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	7 June 1917	Age	26
Place of Death	Belgium
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery, Heuvelland, West-Viaanderen, Belgium
Memorial Reference	IV. A. 18
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Memorial plaque, St Mary's Church, Timaru

Biographical Notes

Norman, born in 1891, was the son of John and Martha Sophia (Sofia) Forsyth of Riverton. Norman's siblings were William John (b.1883), Frederick George (b.1885), Albert Jubilee (b.1887), Arthur Percival (b.1889), Dorothy Christina Ivy (b.1893), and Sophronia Elsie Belinda (b.1894).

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (September 2013); Archway (October 2015 & December 2017); New Zealand Birth Records

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Researched and Written by

Janette Clarke, SC branch NZSG

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