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{{Personnel
|id=2251
|Surname and forenames=Forrester Alfred
|Army number=4688313
|Rank=Private
|Decorations=None known other than service medals.
|Date of birth=Born West Bromwich 1910/11.
|Age=33
|Unit=Enlisted in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (Enlistment Book not available). Transferred to The Durham Light Infantry 18/4/1940. Posted to the 10th Battalion DLI.  Served Iceland?  Served Normandy.  KILLED in ACTION 29/6/1944 with 10th Battalion Durham Light Infantry.
|Joined Brigade=18-Apr-40.
|Company or Battery=Not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or Role=Not yet known.
|Prisoner of War=No.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=29-Jun-44.  Interred initially at Fontenay-le-Pesnel, map reference 7F/1 1/50,000 872674 alongside Pte Rannard.  Subsequently re-buried Grave VIII. H. 1. Ryes War Cemetery, Bazenville.  Headstone inscription reads: "GONE FROM OUR HOME BUT NOT OUR HEARTS. EVELYN AND MAUREEN".
|Home address=Resident of West Bromwich.  Son of Alfred and Sophia Forrester, husband of Evelyn Emma Forrester, West Bromwich.  
|Source table=10DLI

}}