George Norman Bowes Forster
Brigadier-General George Norman Bowes Forster, CMG, DSO (October 1872 – 4 April 1918) was a British Army officer. He was killed during the Battle of the Avre, commanding the 42nd Brigade
, when his headquarters were overrun. According to one account, he was captured by the Germans, then shortly afterward was killed by a stray bullet.
His body was never found. He is commemorated on the Pozières Memorial, the most senior officer commemorated there.
References
- Davis, Frank; Maddocks, Graham (1995). Bloody Red Tabs - General Officer Casualties of the Great War, 1914-1918. London: Leo Cooper, pp. 61–62.
