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Name Samuel Forsyth No. 4/400 POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 1044 Awards VC
Regiment New Zealand Expeditionary Force, New Zealand Engineers attached to 2nd Battalion, Auckland Infantry Regiment
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth Wellington, New Zealand
Place Of Death Grevillers, France
Buried/Location Ashes Adanac Military Cemetery, Miraumont-Pys, 7 miles north east of Albert, Somme, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot 1, Row 1, Grave 39
Gazetted 22 October 1918
VC Presented 23 November 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his widow, Mary
Memorials
P Headstone, Adanac Military Cemetery, Miraumont-Pys, 7 miles north east of Albert, Somme, France
Named on Family Headstone, Karori Cemetery, Wellington, New Zealand
P Named on Family Headstone, Compartment 2A, Linn Cemetery, Glasgow, Scotland
P Named on Wifes Headstone, Knockbreda Cemetery, Church Road, Belfast, Co Antrim, N Ireland
Named on Commemorative Sundial, Caroline Bay, Timaru, New Zealand
Named on Memorial, Returned Servicemen's Association HQ, Dunedin, New Zealand
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queens Gardens, Dunedin, New Zealand
P Victoria Cross Commemoration Paving Stone, National Memorial, Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
Forsyth Street, Taradale, Napier, New Zealand
By The Way…
In his early working life before the war, he was a Gold Miner
VC Held By
Lord Ashcroft Collection / I.W.M.
BORN 26 May 1894
DIED 24 August 1918 AGE 27
VC Won 24 August 1918 AGE
Place VC Won Grevillers, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
