Service Details
Name:
 FORSYTHE
Given Name:
 ROBERT JAMES HARRY
Initials:
 R J H
Service No:
 D/JX 150185
Rank:
 Signalman
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Regiment:
 Royal Navy
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Unit:
 H.M.S. Bramble
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Date of Death:
 1942-12-31
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Date of Birth:
 1920-08-02
Age:
 22
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, sunk by a heavy German cruiser while gallantly defending a Russian convoy, with the loss of the whole ship's company.
Additional
Information:
Son of Capt. George Harry Forsythe, Legion of Frontiersmen, and Catherine Maud Forsythe, of Gosport, Hampshire. Born Johannesburg. Educated Park School, Turffontein, Johannesburg; General Botha Cadet Draft 1935-6. After training in General Botha, Robert James Harry Forsythe joined the RN as seaman and posted to HMS Bridgewater and later HMS Impregnable. He served in HMS Bramble, in the North Atlantic in 1940 and 1941.
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Devon
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Cemetery:
 PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 67, Column 3.

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