What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: William Thomas Forshaw VC 1890-1943 Served with the 1/9th Battalion Manchester Regiment Territorials Awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in the First World War Recorded plaque organisation: Tameside Metropolitan Borough.
William Forshaw VC was a British soldier who served in the Manchester Regiment during World War I and was awarded the Victoria Cross for his acts of bravery under fire on 25 September 1918.
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