Private 16844 Richard FORSHAW
Private 16844 Richard Forshaw{gallery}Pte R Forshaw{/gallery}11th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
Killed in action in France and Flanders, 19th May 1915 aged 28
- Buried: Ecoivres Military Cemetery, Mont-St. Eloi, Pas-de-Calais, France. Grave I.M.12
- Awarded: 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals
- Son of Richard and Mary Ann Forshaw
- Husband of Florence Forshaw [nee Bates] of Attleborough, Nuneaton. Married Apr Qtr 1914 at Birkenhead
- NNWFHS Memorial: Nuneaton WWI Other Regiments
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- Born c1887 at Birkenhead, Cheshire
- Lived at 10 Ranch Road, Poulton-cum-Seacombe [1901]
- Lived as a guest at 89 Walkergate, Beverley, Yorks [1911]
- Employed as a grocer’s post boy [1901]
- Employed as a samples distributor [1911]
- Enlisted at Wallasey, Cheshire. Arrived in Theatre 25 Sep 1915
