Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Captain G. R. Forster, 19th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, who was killed in action on 25 August 1917

British War and Victory Medals (Capt. J. [sic] R. Forster), in damaged named card boxes of issue; Memorial Plaque (George Richardson Forster); Memorial Scroll (Capt. George Richardson Forster Durham Light Infantry) this last framed, extremely fine (4) £160-£200

M.I.D. London Gazette 21 December 1917.

George Richardson Forster was educated at St Bees School, Cumberland, 1908-10. At the outbreak of war he joined the ranks of the 16th Northumberland Fusiliers (No. 16/290). In May 1915 he was granted a commission in the 19th Durham Light Infantry, and was gazetted Captain in April 1917. His battalion was ordered to retake some trenches that had been lost, and it was in leading his company in this assault that he was killed. Aged 23, he was the son of W. B. Forster of Springwell House, Durham, and is buried in Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery, France.

Sold with War Office letter confirming to next of kin that Captain Forster had been Mentioned in Despatches.