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Lance Corporal Harry Forster MM, one of the heroes of the St Valery evacuation, was presented with a wallet and treasury notes by the townspeople at a dance in the British Legion Hall, Amble.
Making the presentation Councillor Brown, chairman of Amble UDC, recalled that L/Cpl Forster won his Military Medal for a most gallant rescue under heavy machine gun and artillery fire.
Morpeth Herald 31 October 1941.

And a postscript from the Herald on 5 September 1941:
Lance Corporal Forster is the first Amble man to win a decoration during the present war. He is 34 and lives at 21 Henderson Street. Going to France with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers in April last year, he was taken prisoner by the Germans at St Valery, 3 months later. He was reported missing, believed killed. To the great surprise and delight of his wife and family, Forster arrived home unexpectedly in May last.