Corporal Francis (Frank) Nosworthy Forster
King's Liverpool Regiment

Francis (Frank) Nosworthy Forster was born 27th Oct 1889 in St. Peter Port, Guernsey, the second son of Arthur Hurrell Forster, a fruit grower, and Mary Ann Lock.

As a young man he worked for his father, a market gardener, for 5 years and for the Guernsey Electric Light & Power Company as an electrician for 3 months. He enlisted in the Lancashire Fusiliers at Guernsey on 21st November 1914 with Regimental No. 12372. After training with the 3rd Battalion in Bury and Hull he was posted to the 1st Battalion on 15th May 1915, joining the ill-fated campaign in the Dardenelles, where he was wounded (GSW back) on 5th July 1915.

Following a period of recuperation in the UK, he was transferred to the King's Liverpool Regiment on 6th March 1916 with Regimental No. 33951 and was posted to Egypt with the 2nd Battalion. During his time in Palestine he was promoted to Lance Corporal and then Corporal. He was severely wounded by shrapnel to the left of his spine in the summer of 1917 and spent 68 days at the Hahneman Hospital in Liverpool before being discharged from the Army as medically unfit on 20th November 1917, after exactly 3 years' service.

He was awarded the 1914-15 Star, British War & Victory medals and the Silver War Badge.
Initially paralysed, he recovered sufficiently to re-join his former employer and take charge of the running of an electricity sub-station. He married Louisa, daughter of Edward and Minnie Falla, on 9th November 1922 and they had a daughter in 1927.

He died in Guernsey on 5th Jan 1976 aged 86.