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Name: FORSYTH, James Somerled
Birth Date: 3 Dec 1874 Ratho, Midlothian
Death Date: 1 Jan 1941 Vancouver
First Date: 1907
Profession: EAP Administration Service; Assistant DC in Machakos 1909
Area: Machakos
Book Reference: Gillett, Hut, Gazette, North
War Service: CEF, Canada
School: Loreto School, Musselburgh; Edinburgh Univ.
General Information:
Gazette 1/9/1907 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Asst. District Commissioner - 23/8/1907
Gazette 15/9/1908 - Asst. Dist. Comm. - Departed - termination of Appointment - 25/8/1908
Gazette 15 Oct 1907 Gun licence
Gazette 15 Sep 1908 J.S. Forsyth, Asst. DC, termination of appointment 25 Aug.
Blue Book 1907-8 appt 2 Aug 1907
Went to Canada by 1910, was a farmer
1916 Census of Manitoba
/digital.nls.uk/rolls-of-honour/archive/100561902?mode=transcription JAMES SOMERLED FORSYTH, Isle of Mull. Enlisted in 63rd Canadians in August 1915. Served in France from August till November 1916. Taken prisoner, and was eighteen months in Germany and Switzerland. Repatriated to England in June 1918, and discharged in Canada in December 1918 as unfit for further service, owing to wounds received at Battle of the Somme.