Major Charles Evelyn Forrest ^26,67,292

  General Notes:

Educated Uplands School, Epsom and Uppingham;

From Ancestry.co.uk

Name: C E Forrest
Casualty Type: Wounded
Casualty Date: 29 May 1900
Casualty Place: Elandsfontein
Rank: Lieutenant
Force: South Africa Field Force
Regiment: Oxfordshire Light Infantry
Battalion: 1st Battalion

From CWGC

Name: FORREST, CHARLES EVELYN
Initials: C E
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Major
Regiment: Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Date of Death: 22/11/1915
Awards: DSO
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 26 and 63.
Cemetery: BASRA MEMORIAL

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Resides: 1881, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Birth

2. Resides: 1891, Uppingham, Rutland, England. Birth

3. He served in the military on 1 December 1897 in 2nd Lieutenant.

4. Promotion: 25 October 1898, Lieutenant.

5. Resides: 1901, Cowley, Oxfordshire, England. Birth

6. Promotion: 22 February 1903, Captain.

7. Census UK 1911: 1911, Cherry Orchard, Westbury on Trym, Somerset. ¹⁰

8. Resided: 1915, The Bungalow, Pegglesworth, Andoversford, Gloucestershire. ¹³

9. Memorial Service: 5 December 1915, Dowdeswell, Gloucestershire.

10. He had an estate probated on 2 June 1916 in Gloucester. ¹³

Charles married Ruth Mary Holmes à Court, daughter of Edward Alexander Holmes à Court and Adelaide Sophie Hamersley, on 20 August 1910 in Church of St. Mary The Virgin, Iffley, Oxfordshire. (Ruth Mary Holmes à Court was born on 4 June 1885 in Headington, Oxfordshire and died on 29 August 1960 in Oxford ¹³.)