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- FORSTER
- CJ
- CHRISTOPHER JACK
- Chipping Campden Vicarage
- Gloucestershire, England
- Son of Francis Samuel and Lola P. Forster, of Frindsbury Cottage, Loose, Maidstone, Kent; brother Fracis W Forster, sister Nellie C.K.M Forster
- Commemorated on war memorial in St. James’s Church in Chipping Campden and All Saints Frindsbury
Military service
- 7 October 1914, London University Officers' Training Corps
- Lieutenant
- 3rd Coy. Royal Engineers
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Naval Forces
Royal Field Artillery -
He served with the London University Officers' Training Corps until 14 March 1915. He then transferred to the 3rd Reserve Battalion, Royal Naval Division and served with them at Blandford Camp in England until 13 November 1915. He was granted a commission with the 9th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry on 17 November 1915 but he did not take up this posting as he had applied for a commission with the Royal Field Artillery. On 26 November 1915 his commission with the Somerset Light Infantry was cancelled and in December he joined the Royal Field Artillery as a 2nd lieutenant and arrived in France just in time to qualify for a 1915 Star campaign medal. After serving on the Western Front for just over a year he was attached to the Royal Engineers on 5 February 1917 but three days later he was admitted to Number 10 Stationary Hospital at St. Omer with severe rheumatic fever. He was transferred to hospital at Boulogne and then embarked at Boulogne on the Cambria and arrived back in England on 16 February. He entered a convalescent hospital at 6, Clarendon Terrace in Brighton on 28 February and after a medical examination at Caxton Hall he was graded as “unfit for service for at least two months”. A further medical examination followed at the 2nd Eastern General Hospital in Brighton on 11 April when he was again graded as “unfit for active service for six weeks but fit for service at home”. The board recommended twenty-one days’ leave. Christopher reported to Withnoe Camp at Devonport on 2 May 1917 to begin his home service after his leave had finished and on 22 May he was passed fit for active service at the Military Hospital in Devonport. When he returned to France he was attached to the Royal Engineers and in July 1917 he was in Belgium;
former number LZ/1439
Death
- Killed in action
- 21 July 1917
- 22
- XIII - B - 17
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