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|family = [[Ghosthunter:Bertie Fortesque|Bertie Fortesque]] <small>(brother)</small><br>[[medievil:Sir Daniel Fortesque|Sir Daniel Fortesque]] <small>(possible relative)</small>}} | |family = [[Ghosthunter:Bertie Fortesque|Bertie Fortesque]] <small>(brother)</small><br>[[medievil:Sir Daniel Fortesque|Sir Daniel Fortesque]] <small>(possible relative)</small>}} | ||
{{Quote|Last of the Fortesque line. The Colonel led his men to a watery grave. He fights on in death in the vain hope of one day tasting victory.|Official in-game description.}} | {{Quote|Last of the Fortesque line. The Colonel led his men to a watery grave. He fights on in death in the vain hope of one day tasting victory.|Official in-game description.}} | ||
'''Colonel Freddie Fortesque''' ({{c.|1878}} – 1945) | '''Colonel Freddie Fortesque''' ({{c.|1878}} – 1945) was a soldier of the British Army, which he joined to fight for Britain like [[medievil:Fortesque family|his predecessors]]. He met his demise in 1945 while carrying the spoils of war to the [[wikipedia:George VI|King]] on the [[Ghosthunter:HMS Victoria|HMS Victoria]]. He continued fighting the good fight even in death, until his ghost was captured and placed into the [[Ghosthunter:Array|Array]] by a ghosthunter. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
{{Quote|Pish and Baloney, the Fortesque family have been fighting, man and boy, for old 'Blighty' for over 1000 years, and we've never let a little thing like death get in the way of a good scrap. Why there's a Fortesque on every battlefield in the civilized world, Agincourt, dead, Waterloo, dead, Dunkirk, dead...|Colonel Freddie, ''Ghosthunter''}} | {{Quote|Pish and Baloney, the Fortesque family have been fighting, man and boy, for old 'Blighty' for over 1000 years, and we've never let a little thing like death get in the way of a good scrap. Why there's a Fortesque on every battlefield in the civilized world, Agincourt, dead, Waterloo, dead, Dunkirk, dead...|Colonel Freddie, ''Ghosthunter''}} | ||