In Memory Of

FORSYTHE, ROBERT JAMES HARRY

Service Details
Age:
 22
Date of Birth:
 1920-08-02
Service No:
 D/JX 150185
Rank:
 Signalman
Unit:
 H.M.S. Bramble
Regiment:
 Royal Navy
Date of Death:
 1942-12-31
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.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Panel 67, Column 3.
Cemetery:
 PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL
Localitly:
 Devon
Country:
 United Kingdom
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.