Foster Albert Pte 4457995

Personnel Entry

Pte A Foster's CWGC headstone.

Name Foster Albert
Army number 4457995
Rank Private.
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
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).
Company/Battery HQ Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit Not yet known.
Task or role Not known but probably Rifleman.
Joined Brigade Probably 1/9/1939.
Promotions None known.
Wounded Not yet known.
Prisoner of War No.
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.
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