1915 (a week short of his 43rd birthday). His next of kin was recorded as his wife Mary, then living at 20 Linthorpe Street in Newtown. Forsyth was placed in the 5th Squadron (2nd Remount Unit) and embarked for overseas service in November 1915. The Remount units were given the task of training and caring for the Australian horses during the Sinai and Palestine campaigns. Enlisted men placed in the Remount units were often older (with a maximum age of 50), a high proportion of whom were Boer War veterans and expert horsemen. In March 1916 Forsyth suffered from a sprained knee and was hospitalised in Egypt. He rejoined his unit at the Heliopolis Camp near Cairo in May, but was demobilised in June 1916 and returned to Australia aboard the hospital ship H.S. Itonus. After the war ended Forsyth was employed as a "film exchange officer" by Harry Musgrove's First National Films and Australasian Films. Film exchanges were film distribution businesses that rented out motion pictures to theatres, a business process that suited flexible and frequent program changes. In 1923 Forsyth was responsible for organising a song competition for The Manly Daily newspaper which offered prizes of £50 to compose a musical score to match the lyrics of Manly By the Sea, written by Mr. H. C. Bailey of Waterloo. The short-listed entries were presented in a series of concerts. The first of ten concerts was held at the Dungowan Theatre in early March, presenting six of the selected compositions for adjudication. Later that year Forsyth organised an art competition for The Manly Daily on the theme of "Beauties of Manly", culminating in an exhibition which opened in December 1923. A branch of the Australian Natives' Association was formed at Manly in July 1924, with H. A. Forsyth as its vice-president. Later years By 1930 Bert Forsyth was living in Botany Street in Bondi Junction, in Sydney's eastern suburbs. His occupation was recorded as an agent on the 1930 electoral roll. Evidence from electoral rolls indicate that Forsyth had separated from his second wife. From about the mid-1930s Forsyth and a woman named Nancy Duncan were living in a de facto relationship (with Nancy listed on the rolls as 'Nancy Forsyth'). The couple eventually married in May 1959, four months before Bert Forsyth's death. By 1937 Bert and Nancy Forsyth were living at 257 Victoria Street in Darlinghurst. Bert's