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Harold Forster
English cricketer (1878-1918) · Athletes · Died at 39
Harold Thomas Forster was an English first-class cricketer and an officer in the British Army. Forster began his military career in 1897 with as a ranking with the Royal Marines Light Infantry.
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He would later join the Royal Berkshire Regiment as a non-commissioned officer and serve in the First World War, where he gained a commission with the Royal Berkshire's. He would become one of the most decorated first-class cricketers to serve in the war, being awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross and earning a bar to both. Forster would be killed in action at the Third Battle of the Aisne, in late-May 1918.
