Remembrance - The Yorkshire Regiment, First World War Private Joseph FORSTER. 15578 Close window to return to main page

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Private Joseph FORSTER. 15578.

9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Killed 7 October 1916.
Born Shankhouse, Enlisted North Shields.
Commemorated on Pier and Face 3A & 3D, THIEPVAL MEMORIAL.

(A half-back with Newcastle United’s second-string during the 1890s, he was over 40 years of age when he volunteered for the Army.)

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