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Alexander Forrest

Rifleman

Service No. 2163

Age 24

Died on 2 May 1915

Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps

BEACH CEMETERY, ANZAC

Turkey (including Gallipoli)

Son of George and Elizabeth Forrest, of Wardhead, Strichen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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Michael Forrest

Rest in Peace: you and your fallen comrades will never be forgotten.

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Vivien Roworth

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

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Vivien Roworth

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

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Michael Forrest

I have visited the Gallipoli battlefields several times and am always moved by the beauty of the peninsula, which contrasts with the terrible sacrifice paid by so many men of a dozen nationalities. My poppy if for Alexander Forrest, Ceylon Planter's R

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I have visited the Gallipoli battlefields several times and am always moved by the beauty of the peninsula, which contrasts with the terribl...

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