Joseph Alfred Forbes

Born : 3rd December 1918, Bulwell, Nottingham.
His birth was recorded in the fourth quarter of 1918 in the Nottingham Registration District.
Son of : Joseph Edmund Forbes : Born : 23rd May 1889, Elland, Yorkshire and Florence Sarah Forbes, nee Blant : Born : 27th May 1894, Somercotes, Derbyshire.
Brother of : Harriet Amy Husselbee ?, nee Forbes : Born : 23rd May 1917 : Bulwell, Nottingham : Douglas Forbes : Bulwell, Nottingham : Born : Circa : 1921 : Bulwell Nottingham : Gladys R. Millership, nee Forbes : Born : 15th May 1925.

According to the 1921 Census the Family were living at : 34. Newcastle Street, Bulwell, Nottingham, Joseph Edmund Forbes, (Head), aged, 32 years, 1 month old, a Mine Deputy at the Sherwood Colliery Company, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, Florence Sarah Forbes, (Wife), aged, 26 years, 7 months old, Unpaid Domestic Duties At Home, Harriet Amy Forbes, (Daughter), aged, 4 years, 1 month old, Joseph Alfred Forbes, (Son), aged, 2 years, 7 months old, Douglas Forbes, (Son), aged, 2 months old.

According to the 1939 Register the Family were living at : 81. Long Hill Rise, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, Forbes, Joseph A., a Mine Deputy, Forbes, Florence, S., Unpaid Domestic Duties, Forbes, Joseph A., a Hotel Waiter, Millership, Gladys A., a Hosiery Finisher, Husselbee ?, Harriet A., Hosiery Cutter.

Born 3/12/1918
A Headstone on the grave of a J. A. Forbes in Hucknall Cemetery gives a date of death as 27th March 1945, aged, 26 years but there is no other useful information to help corroborate that this is the correct person, but it appears to fit.