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| Full name | Harold Thomas Forster | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 November 1878 Winchester, Hampshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 29 May 1918 (aged 39) near Ventelay, Marne, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Left-arm slow-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1911 | Hampshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 15 January 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harold Thomas Forster DSO & Bar MC & Bar (14 November 1878 – 29 May 1918) 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. 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.
Prior to the First World War, he played first-class cricket for Hampshire on five occasions, taking ten wickets and one five wicket haul.