147 Higher Audley Street, Blackburn // The Cottage, Knuzden, Blackburn
Profession
Weaver (Knuzden Brook Mill)
Family
Son of Isaac and Harriet (nee Fowler) Forrest
Extra information
Information
Left school at the age of 12 and then did a textiles course at Blackburn Technical College.
Military data
Service number
129895
Rank
L/Cpl.
Regiment / Unit
P. Special Company Royal Engineers
Date of death
Cemetery / Memorial
Wieltje Farm Cemetery (Sint-Jan, Ieper), B.12
Other information
Information 1
Confirmed by Bishop Gwynne 09.07.1917 - age 20 - R.I.P. Aug. 30th (sic).
Information 2
Tubby refers to Archie in a letter to his mother (12.08.1918).
Information 3
An oak chair in Archie's memory stands in the Upper Room of Talbot House, given by his comrades of 'P' Special (Gas) Company
Information 4
A room was endowed in his memory at Talbot House, London (Mark I) in 1920.
Information 5
In Nov. 1922, his sister Elizabeth was involved in setting up a group of the Toc H League of Women Helpers in Blackburn. His sister Ethel was present at the reopening of Talbot House at Easter 1931.
Information 6
Tubby covered Archie's story in his 'Plain Tales from Flanders' (1929).
