Name
William Charles Foster
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/10/1919
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sapper
67195
Royal Engineers
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HITCHIN CEMETERY
West Section, Grave 620
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
His home was at 11, Thorp's Yard, Queen St. Hitchin.
Wartime Service
He volunteered in February 1915 and went to France in the same year. He was engaged in keeping telegraphic communications at Loos, on the Somme, Arras, Ypres and Cambrai where he was wounded. He was demobilised in February 1919, but later died from illness incurred, as a result of his service. His Regimental Number was 67197.
A Commonwealth War Graves Commission stone marks his grave and he was buried in Grave 620 in Hitchin Cemetery.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
