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Personal data

• Name AINSLIE
• Initials MF
• First name MONTAGUE FORWOOD
• Place of birth Liverpool
• Country Lancashire, England
• Family Son of Richard Ainslie and Mabel Bower Forwood, of Childwall Vicarage, Liverpool; three sisters, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth.
• Education Sedbergh School
• Profession Bank clerk
• Extra info Commemorated by a cross in the burial ground at Windermere erected by his brother officers; his name is also on the Childwall church, Sedbergh School and Martins Bank war memorials and on a panel in the Hall of Remembrance in Liverpool Town Hall;

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 4 September 1914
• Rank Lieutenant
• Medals 1914-15 Star, BWM, VM
• Regiment and unit 12th Bn. King's (Liverpool Regiment)
• Division - Brigade 61st Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 20th Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career to France in July 1915; Company Commander, B Coy

Death

• Wounded 8 April, Boesinghe
• Type of wounds Died of grenade splinters in leg, amputation, in n°10 CCS
• Date of death 17 April 1916
• Died at the age of 23
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery V - A - 19

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