Next of kin plaque : Private Fergus Forbes, 1st Battalion, AIF

Bronze next of kin plaque, showing on the obverse, Britannia holding a laurel wreath, the British lion, dolphins, a spray of oak leaves and the words 'HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR' around the edge. Beneath the main figures, the British lion defeats the German eagle. The initials 'ECP', for the designer Edward Carter Preston appear above the lion's right forepaw. A raised rectangle above the lion's head bears the name 'FERGUS FORBES'. The plaque is mounted in a circular varnished wooden frame, 26mm deep. A hinged supporting strut is screwed to the upper reverse; the frame is also supplied with a brass suspension plate, screwed in just above the strut. The rear lower portion of the frame, where it would sit on a surface, has been flattened to improve its stability.

Born in Parramatta, New South Wales, Fergus Decimus Forbes was employed as a railway porter at Granville when he enlisted in the AIF, as Fergus Forbes, with the consent of his father, on 21 January 1915. Posted a private, service number 1945, to the 5th Reinforcements to the 4th Battalion, Forbes contracted measles and failed to embark for overseas service. He re-enlisted on 25 April and was posted to the 5th Reinforcements to the 1st Battalion, service number 2088. The unit sailed from Sydney on 25 June, aboard HMAT A40 Ceramic.

Forbes joined his battalion at Gallipoli on 5 September. He survived the battalion's charge at Lone Pine on 7 September but was shot through the head and killed the next day. He was aged 19. His body was not recovered for burial and his name is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial.

This memorial plaque was sent to his father, William Stanley
Forbes, in November 1921.