Henry Victor Forwood

A Deck Hand with Steam Trawler Lindsey (Boston), Henry died on 10th of September 1920 at the age of 19. 

Henry was born at Lowestoft in late 1901. He was a son of William Charles and Harriet Mary Garnham. In 1911 his family lived at 5 Eastern Square, Whapload Road. What exactly happened to Henry’s biological father is not known, but in 1916 his mother married Henry Horton Forwood and it seems that, thereafter, Henry used the surname Forwood. His family lived at 33 Police Station Road. 

In September 1920 Henry, who served as Victor Forwood, was a Deck Hand with the Boston based trawler Lindsey. The Lindsey sailed from Boston on 3 September and should have returned on 13 September. On 9 September the Lindsey, and the Boston based trawler Bostonian, were seen fishing about 180 miles east-north-east of Spurn Point. Both trawlers were long overdue for their return and by 25 September it was concluded that both trawlers had struck mines and sank. 

Henry was one of ten men lost on the Lindsey. 

In 1996 the council at Boston, Lincolnshire, acknowledged that Henry’s name of 236 that were omitted from the town’s war memorial.