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The Roll lists his address as 10 Hankey Street. Harry Forth's eldest brother John also died in WW1, and is on the Roll of Honour.
(CWGC records that Private Harry Forth, service number CH/1547 (S), died aged 23 on 28/4/1917 while serving in the 1st Royal Marine Battalion of the Royal Naval Division, Royal Marine Light Infantry, and is commemorated on Bay 1 of Arras Memorial. They record him as the son of John & Mary Elizabeth Forth of 119 Mayor's Walk, Peterborough. The Jack Clegg Memorial Database of Royal Naval Division Casualties of the Great War records that Harry's original service number was Deal 3883 (S); he enlisted on 18/5/1915 as a Private in the RM Medical Unit. He was drafted 1/8/1915 and served in 3rd RN Field Ambulance from 20/8/1915 to 1/12/1915. He transferred to the 2nd RM Battalion Field Ambulance, in which he served as a Nursing Orderly from 4/12/1915 to 20/6/1916. He then transferred to the RMLI. He joined the 4th Entrenching Battalion on 10/11/1916, and transferred to the 1st RM Battalion on 25/11/1916).