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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 123

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (228206. A. Forbes, A.B., H.M.S. Odin.), very fine

Andrew Forbes was born on 6 November 1887 at Dundee, Forfarshire. A calico dyer by trade, he joined the Royal Navy on 18 September 1903 as Boy 2nd Class, being promoted Ordinary Seaman aboard Argonaut on 6 November 1905, Able Seaman aboard Leviathan on 15 February 1907 and Leading Seaman aboard the Espiegle-class sloop Odin from 1 August 1913. From 21 September 1915, Forbes served aboard the monitor H.M.S. Earl of Peterborough which was originally built to shell German shore artillery in occupied Belgium. Transferred to the Eastern Mediterranean, the ship shelled Turkish positions in the Dardanelles and was active against enemy units in Turkey, Egypt and Palestine until the cessation of hostilities. Promoted Able Seaman on 16 December 1916, Forbes was demobilised on 28 May 1919.

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