Chamberlain Thomas ffoster Lt 73174
Personnel Entry
Name Chamberlain Thomas ffoster
Army number 73174
Rank Lt
Decorations
Date of birth 27/5/1917 in Egypt (Some records show birth in Bristol).
Age 25 at the time of his death.
Unit Commissioned as 2/Lt in The Durham Light Infantry 26/8/1937. Posted 6th Bn DLI as Adjutant 21/4/1939 - 8/8/1939. Posted No 4 ITC 7/9/1939. Posted 8th Bn DLI 8/9/1939. Posted 10th Bn DLI 26/10/1939. Posted 6th Bn DLI 29/1/1940. Served B.E.F. Posted Overseas. Served Egypt. KILLED in ACTION with 6th Bn DLI 24/25th October 1942.
Company/Battery Bn HQ, S Company.
Platoon or other sub-unit Mortar Platoon.
Task or role Adjutant 13/11/39. Platoon Commander and Gas Officer.
Joined Brigade 26-Oct-39.
Promotions Lieutenant 26/8/1940. Acting Captain 15/12/1940 to 17/3/1941. Temporary Captain 18/3/1941.
Wounded
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action 24-Oct-42.
Home address Resident of Bristol. Son of Thomas Arthur and Frances Mary Chamberlain, of Failand, Somerset. Buried Grave XXV. D. 2 El Alamein War Cemetery.
Source table 10DLI
To read his Commemorative Record please click here.
He is recorded as travelling, aged 20, with his parents to and from Lisbon on SS Asturias and SS Alcantara respectively, leaving on 7/8/1937 and landing back in the UK on 16/8/1937. A similar trip was made the following year, landing on 15/8/1938.
