Training College

Sydney Trovorrow Forbes

Enlistment Date

17/08/1914

Age At Enlistment

Rank On Enlistment

Corporal

Rank Attained At War’s End

Lieutenant

Regimental No.

205

Battalion

11th Battalion, B Company

Fate

KIA

Fate Date

25/07/1916

Occupation

School Teacher

Place of Birth

Camberwell, Victoria

Religion

Presbyterian

Marital Status

Single

Embarkation Details

Embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A7 Medic on 31 October 1914

Sydney Trovorrow Forbes was born on 1 April 1894 in Melbourne, Victoria. A teacher at Leederville from 1911 (initially a monitor), he played with Training College from 1912 to 1914.

Enlisting very early in August 1914, he was wounded in action at Gallipoli. He died after being shot by a German POW on 22 July 1916 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France, at the age of 22, and was buried in Villers-Bretonneux, Somme, France.