Alfred Stuart Forsyth Lieutenant 11th and 12th Independent Machine Gun Companies, Princess Louise Fusiliers, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps Service Number: F/426663 Date of Birth: Born July 4, 1921 Place of Birth: Hantsport, Hants Co., Nova Scotia Enlistment: April 9, 1942, ( Halifax, Nova Scotia) Date of Death: September 29, 1944 Age: 23 Cemetery: Cesena War Cemetery, Italy Grave: Section VIII, Row B, Grave 8 Commemorated on Page 307 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on June 30 Alfred Stuart Forsyth was the son of John Stewart Grant Forsyth (1899-1978) and Frances (Churchill) Forsyth (1901- 1942). His father was born in Windsor, in Hants Co., NS; his mother, in the Hantsport / Walton area of Hants County. Alfred had a younger brother Arthur Churchill and sister Mary Elizabeth Forsyth (1924-2008). He was married to Dorothy Irene (MacKenzie) Forsyth (b. 1921). Arthur’s father was Second Officer on the merchant ship Oregonian in the 1920’s. Alfred’s uncle Lieutenant Alfred Snow Churchill died in the First World War at Vimy Ridge on April 9, 1917, serving with the Royal Canadian Regiment. Alfred’s brother Lieutenant Junior Grade Arthur Churchill Forsyth served in the Merchant Navy and died in 1945. The family moved to the United States in 1924. Their mother died in 1942. Alfred was living at 31 Oakland Rd in Halifax, Nova Scotia when he enlisted in 1942. He was a law student at Dalhousie and had served with the Dalhousie and Kings Canadian Officer Training Corps (COTC) from October 1, 1938, until he enlisted. After training in Brockville, Ontario, Alfred was attached to Camp 60 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia from November 5, 1942, until Feb 13, 1943, when he transferred to No. 14 Aldershot in Kings Co., NS. Lt. Forsyth was killed during the Canadian Army’s hard‑fought advance across the Romagna plain on September 29, 1944, as I Canadian Corps pushed north toward the Savio River following the breach of the Gothic Line. Serving with the 11th and later the 12th Independent Machine Gun Company, Forsyth would have been directing or positioning Vickers machine‑gun fire in support of infantry and armoured units battling German rearguards south of Cesena, an area marked by constant mortar fire, machine‑gun exchanges, and stubborn delaying actions. His burial in Cesena War Cemetery places him directly within this phase of the campaign, when Canadian forces were fighting through villages and ridgelines toward the Savio in preparation for the major river assault in early October. Service File: Alfred Stuart Forsyth