FORBES, ARCHIBALD (1838-1900), British war-corre spondent, was born in Morayshire and educated at Aberdeen uni versity. He served for a short time as a private in the Royal Dragoons before entering journalism. Forbes was one of the greatest war-correspondents of his day, and his exploits in secur ing and despatching copy from various theatres of war became a legend in Fleet street. He went through the Franco-German war of 1870 for the Morning Advertiser and the Daily News, the second Carlist War, the Serbian campaign of 1876, the Russo Turkish War of 1877, the Afghan War of 1878 and the Zulu War of 1879. Of his many publications may be mentioned Memories and Studies of War and Peace (1895), much of which is auto biographical. He died on March 3o, 1900.