Introduction

In 2014 the centenary of the outbreak of World War One, Cumnock History Group began researching the names on the Cumnock War Memorial plus other men and women with Cumnock connections mentioned on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission or in the Cumnock Chronicle of the time. The research is not limited to those who died but also to men and women who served, using family history information.

The group would like to appeal to individuals with knowledge of family members for photographs of the soldier, either in uniform or not, and photos of medals or other memorabilia eg letters sent home from the Front. If you would be prepared to share these on this site, please email the web manager info@cumnockhistorygroup.org The group is willing to share any copies of documents found with the soldier's descendants.

Saturday, 14 February 2026

Peter Forbes

 Peter Forbes was born in the north of Scotland in Rosskeen on 29 May 1879. By 1911 he was in Cumnock managing the model Lodging House in Tower street,

In 1910 he had an illegitimate son Peter Carter Forbes with Annie Carter the daughter of another lodging house keeper Francis Carter.

In 1911 he married Elizabeth Miller from Wick in Cramond near Edinburgh and they had three children, 2 born in Wick and one in Cumnock,

He enlisted in the Scots Guards and fell in France in 1916, He is on the Thiepval memorial

Service No: 13007
Age: 37
Regiment/Service: Scots Guards, 1st Bn.

Son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Donald Forbes; husband of Elizabeth Forbes, of 68, Temple Park Crescent, Edinburgh.

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