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Private Edwin Forte
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Private Edwin Forte

Birth
Mount Lonarch, Pyrenees Shire, Victoria, Australia
Death
2 Mar 1917 (aged 34–35)
France
Monument
Villers-Bretonneux, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France Add to Map
Memorial ID
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Service No: 610
Age: 33
Regiment/Service: Australian Infantry, A.I.F., 26th Bn.
Honors: M M
Service Number: 610
Enlisted: 19 April 1915, Townsville, Queensland
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 26th Infantry Battalion
Born: Mount Lonarch, Victoria, August 1882
Home Town: Avoca, Pyrenees, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Killed in Action, France, 2 March 1917
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France, Warlencourt British Cemetery, Warlencourt-Eaucourt, Arras, Nord Pas de Calais, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)
Son of John R. and Emily Elizabeth Forte, of Mount Lonarch Post Office, Victoria.
Service No: 610
Age: 33
Regiment/Service: Australian Infantry, A.I.F., 26th Bn.
Honors: M M
Service Number: 610
Enlisted: 19 April 1915, Townsville, Queensland
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 26th Infantry Battalion
Born: Mount Lonarch, Victoria, August 1882
Home Town: Avoca, Pyrenees, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Killed in Action, France, 2 March 1917
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France, Warlencourt British Cemetery, Warlencourt-Eaucourt, Arras, Nord Pas de Calais, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)
Son of John R. and Emily Elizabeth Forte, of Mount Lonarch Post Office, Victoria.


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