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{{Personnel
|id=1488
|Surname and forenames=Foster Albert
|Army number=4457995
|Rank=Private.
|Date of birth=Born 1919/20.
|Age=21 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date as yet, but estimated to have been Spring/Summer 1939.  Posted to the ? 9th Battalion. Posted to the ? 12th Bn DLI 1/9/1939.  Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Served with the B.E.F. in France.  Reported missing in the Auckland Chronicle of 18/7/1940.  Now known to have been KILLED in ACTION (Category "B") 20/5/40, Authority:- Casualty L. (OF/CAS/2/BW/6 dated 4/12/42).
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
|Company/Battery=HQ Company.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Not known but probably Rifleman.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not yet known.
|Prisoner of War=No.
|Joined Brigade=Probably 1/9/1939.
|Died/Killed in action=KILLED in ACTION 20-May-40.   Buried Memorial Plot 8, Row C, Grave 3, [[BUCQUOY ROAD CEMETERY]], Ficheux.  His headstone inscription reads : SON OF ALBERT AND ELIZA FOSTER, NEWFIELD, WILLINGTON,DURHAM. "THY WILL BE DONE."
|Home address=Son of Albert and Eliza Foster, 13, Primrose Hill, Newfield.  Employed as a 'Bus Conductor with the Bonny Heather Service.  
|Image Name=Foster_A_4457995.JPG
|Image Title=Pte A Foster's CWGC headstone.
|Source table=1TS
}}