Samuel Forsyth
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Samuel Forsyth, VC was a New Zealand recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that could be awarded at the time to British and Commonwealth forces.
Sergeant Samuel Forsyth, 1918
A portrait of Samuel Forsyth, executed by Richard Wallwork in 1920
The Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers is the administrative corps of the New Zealand Army responsible for military engineering. The role of the Engineers is to assist in maintaining friendly forces
Samuel Forsyth
…Forsyth enlisted with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force shortly after the outbreak of the First World War in the summer of 1914. Serving with the New Zealand Engineers as a sapper, he participated in the Gallipoli Campaign and later fought on the Western Front. By August 1918, he was on probation to become a commissioned…
Canterbury Engineer Volunteers constructing a bridge, c. 1900
Sappers resting in a shell hole near Ypres, 1917
New Zealand Engineers constructing a bridge on the Western Front, 1918
A sapper clearing a German S-mine in Libya, 1943