Lives of the First World War

Taken from obituary in De Ruvignys Roll of Honour Volume 1

Grave of F W L Forfeitt Pte 2739 1st Hertfordshire Regiment.

This Census Record shows the Forfeitt Family and confirms F W L Forfeitt was over 1 year old at the time of the Census.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Memorial for F W L Forfeitt giving parental details and place of burial.

This memorial is located in 'All Saints Church' Hertford, Hertfordshire. It contains the names of all those killed in action or died of wounds or sickness while on active service abroad both for 1914-1918 and 1939 -1945. F W L Forfeitt is remembered on this memorial.

Details of Forfeitt Family of Frederick William Lawson Forfeitt, his parents and siblings.

Image from Barclays Bank Book of Remembrance - World War One. Completed in April 1959, with parchment pages, the book was decorated and gilded by Dorothy Hutton.

After WW2 it was decided that the permanent official Barclays Bank memorial should be an illuminated inscribed book of remembrance, one for each war. Originally put on display in a purpose-built wall case at 54 Lombard Street, the books were then put on display in the new head office building in the 1990s, and when the head office moved in 2005 to 1 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, the books were put on display in cases there. The WW1 book lists members of staff who lost their lives serving in the armed forces, separated into Barclays Bank, London and South Western Bank, and London and Provincial Bank. The book has parchment pages, with leather binding, engrossed, decorated and gilded by Dorothy Hutton, and bound by Sydney M Cockerell, and includes illustrations of head offices and coats of arms of the three banks. The image shows the page of the WW1 book which features this person’s name as an employee of Barclays Bank Limited.

Image of the original design for a Barclays Bank colour printed WW1 roll of honour. Reproduced in monochrome in “History of Barclays Bank Limited”, P W Matthews & A W Tuke, 1926, page 396.

Image of the original Barclays Bank WW1 memorial panel formerly in the Great Hall at 54 Lombard Street. Published in Spread Eagle (the staff magazine of Barclays Bank), volume 26 (1951), page 461