1918-2008: Ninety Years of Remembrance

Soldier Record

Robert Tweedy Forster

Contributed by: Grandaughter, on 2008-11-11

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First Name Robert Tweedy
Surname Forster
Year of Birth Unknown
Year of Death 1928
Regiment Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
Place of Wartime Residence Walker, Newcastle, Northumberland

Robert Tweedy's Story

I never knew my grandfather as he died long before I was born, but I think he was allowed home for a day or two when his younger daughter died in 1916, and he sat pouring iodine into a large wound he had. He always refused promotion as he wanted to be with the ordinary men.

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