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Andrew Basil Forsyth
1904 - 1934

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• Birth	1904	Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
  Gender	Male
  Died	3 Aug 1934	Wickepin & Jitarning WA
  Person ID	I1	AlexanderForsythHelenSoutar
  Last Modified	26 Dec 2021

  
  

  Father	Andrew Soutar Forsyth,   b. 27 Jul 1867, Arbroath, Angus, Scotland ,   d. 21 Feb 1933, Western Australia Reg No Williams 45
  Mother	Elsie Nettleton,   b. Abt 1876,   d. 1970, Perth Reg No 180
  Married	1899	Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia
  Family ID	F3	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Elfie Berwyn Doncon,   b. 20 Oct 1908,   d. 4 Feb 1993, Albany, Western Australia
  Married	26 Feb 1934	Wickepin Western Australia
  Children	1. Basil John Forsyth,   b. 8 Feb 1935, Wickepin Western Australia ,   d. 2 Jan 1940, Narrogin, Western Australia, Australia
  Family ID	F1	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  The West Australian Tue 7 Aug 1934 Page 1 FORSYTH.-On August 8, 1934, at Elsinor, East Wickepin (result of accident), Andrew Basil, dearly beloved brother of Dorothy, brother-in-law of Ted, and uncle of Basil and Beryl. Sadly missed The Southern Districts Advocate (Katanning, WA : 1913 - 1936) Mon 6 Aug 1934 Page 2 Tractor Kills Farmer. One of the leading wheat growers of that district was killed at East Wickepin on Friday, last. The victim was Andrew Basil Forsyth, aged 30. He was fallowing with a big tractor when he struck a boggy patch and the implement turned over on him. Though assistance was called by his mother, it was not until midnight that the body was extricated. He had been married only five months. Wickepin Argus (WA : 1910 - 1934) Thu 23 Aug 1934 Page 2 An Appreciation of the Late Basil Forsyth. (By Harold V. Fiesse.) Writing from the Katanning Hospital, in which he has been an inmate for some time, Mr. Piesse says:? "The Late Basil Forsyth and his people were first known to me when they resided at Woodanilling, and in later years, I met them East of Wickepin when I was representing the A.M.P. Society. "I was then impressed by the amount of energy and knowledge shown by this youth and the excel lent manner in which he carried on liis father's farm. "1 had many opportunities of dis cussing farming, finance and pur chase of property with him, and he posessed a marvellous vision of the future operation of farming, very few could bring their vision into practical use as this young man proved himself able to do. From time to time he increased his holding, purchasing property in the Jitarning district and I remember him saying when we were all struck with severe depression that he was desirous of putting in a big crop,' al though the price was very low at the time. I remember he said to me: 'Well, Mr. Piesse, I must go on. If 1 stop putting in crop, I will go to the wall.1 He showed a, true spirit of progress and as he was such an excellent wheat farmer, his returns in the forthcoming , season were splendid, and, in conversation with him, he informed me of the large cheque he had received from the Wheat Bounty as provided by the Government for that year. During my travels in the South east Province,. I have never met a man altogether like Basil Forsyth. He had a marvellous capacity for work and it was well-known through out the district how he worked day and night on his faran. Also he had a splendid business acumen which helped him considerably in the purchase of a number of farms .he stood possessed of at' the time of his death. "I can imagine the proud thoughts his Mother had of him, because ho was of outstanding character, and there are few men without capital who had produced such large crops of wheat in sq. few years. "On many- occasions, I have dis cussed his finance with one of the financial ..institutions that assisted him. At first they doubled his cap abilities to carry on* but in later years, this was dispelled by the result of his work and farming operations "My sympathy goes out to his young wife, and to his Mother, and I would add that by his passing, Wickepin, Jitarning and the Wheat area have lost one of the finest type of men, that ever lived in the district, and his memory will live after hint. It is a great pity that one in the prime of life should be then such aa he, because, no doubt had he been spared, he would have accomplished much."