John David Albert Forfar

1912 - 1945  (32 years)

• Name	John David Albert Forfar
  Birth	25 Aug 1912
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Mar 1945	Nijmegen, Holland
  Burial	Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, Gelderland, Netherlands
  Person ID	I8841	Whisperspast | David
  Last Modified	2 Nov 2008

  
  

  Father	David Forfar,   b. 25 Nov 1878, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada d. 17 Jul 1967 (Age 88 years)
  Mother	Fanny Ethel Walton,   b. 28 Mar 1883, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada d. 13 Oct 1971 (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	6 Feb 1907	Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
  Family ID	F2854	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Allied forces entered the Netherlands on 12 September 1944. Airborne operations later that month established a bridgehead at Nijmegen and in the following months, coastal areas and ports were cleared and secured, but it was not until the German initiated offensive in the Ardennes had been repulsed that the drive into Germany could begin. Most of those buried in Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery were Canadians, many of whom died in the Battle of the Rhineland, when the 2nd and 3rd Canadian Infantry Divisions and the 4th Canadian Armoured Division took part in the drive southwards from Nijmegen to clear the territory between the Maas and the Rhine in February and March 1945