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Object description
Born on 29 November 1911, Lieutenant Colonel John Francis Anning Forster served in the Royal Army Medical Services (1934 - 1943) and Indian Medical Services/Indian Army Medical Corps (1943 - 1947). He was attached to SOE as a medical officer (1943 – 1945). The collection comprises his photograph albums, loose photographs and papers relating to his service in India and on the Northwest Frontier in the 1930s, his career as a successful horse-rider in military and civilian circles in the 1930s and 1940s, and three photographs from his time in Borneo with the Australian Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD) in 1945 (first page of album with rust coloured cover). The papers also include: his birth certificate; a booklet entitled 'The Anning Saga' (relating to the history of JFAF's Australian mother's family); admin papers relating to his military service (1934 – 1947); papers relating to the award of his MBE; letters of recommendation (1948); certificates of medical registration for employment in Australia (1948-1949) and memberships; material relating to a 'Jedburgh' reunion in Paris in 1984; three passports and seven pages of ts poetic verse. Loose photographs include pictures of JFAF's mother, two of him as a child, three of the ceremony in France in 1944 when he received the Croix de Guerre (JFAF has a moustache and is shaking hands with the man with the medal on his chest (?); a photograph of him as a surgeon later in life; a photograph of Captain Ian and Mrs Jo Miller; a photograph of a bronze [statue?] parachutist presented by JFAF to 60 Parachute Medical Company, Australian Army in 1971; and a loose photograph, evidently once in an album, showing the three survivors of the Sandakhan Death March whom JFAF helped recover and treat in Borneo in 1945.
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Born on 29 November 1911, Lieutenant Colonel John Francis Anning Forster served in the Royal Army Medical Services (1934 - 1943) and Indian Medical Services/Indian Army Medical Corps (1943 - 1947). He was attached to SOE as a medical officer (1943 – 1945). The collection comprises his photograph albums, loose photographs and papers relating to his service in India and on the Northwest Frontier in the 1930s, his career as a successful horse-rider in military and civilian circles in the 1930s and 1940s, and three photographs from his time in Borneo with the Australian Services Reconnaissance Department (SRD) in 1945 (first page of album with rust coloured cover). The papers also include: his birth certificate; a booklet entitled 'The Anning Saga' (relating to the history of JFAF's Australian mother's family); admin papers relating to his military service (1934 – 1947); papers relating to the award of his MBE; letters of recommendation (1948); certificates of medical registration for employment in Australia (1948-1949) and memberships; material relating to a 'Jedburgh' reunion in Paris in 1984; three passports and seven pages of ts poetic verse. Loose photographs include pictures of JFAF's mother, two of him as a child, three of the ceremony in France in 1944 when he received the Croix de Guerre (JFAF has a moustache and is shaking hands with the man with the medal on his chest (?); a photograph of him as a surgeon later in life; a photograph of Captain Ian and Mrs Jo Miller; a photograph of a bronze [statue?] parachutist presented by JFAF to 60 Parachute Medical Company, Australian Army in 1971; and a loose photograph, evidently once in an album, showing the three survivors of the Sandakhan Death March whom JFAF helped recover and treat in Borneo in 1945.