Name
William John Foskett
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
The only reference of William Foskett’s military service was found in the Leavesden Parish Magazine of January 1915 where it was recorded that he was employed as an Attendant at the Asylum, and had joined His Majesty’s Forces.
William was born at Bedmond in 1872. He was one of six children born to Henry and Sarah Foskett. The family remained at Bedmond for several years and Henry worked on a farm. However, by the time of the 1891 Census the family had moved to Hendon where Henry and William worked as a Farm Labourers at Stony Farm. William married in 1896 and moved to Acton where he was recorded living with his wife Ellen at the time of the 1901 Census.
At the time of the 1911 Census the family continued to live at Acton, and William was recorded working as a Plate-layer on the railway. At the time that he was recorded in the Leavesden Parish Magazine, in January 1915, he was employed as an Asylum Attendant and the family had moved to live at Tanners Hill, Abbots Langley.
William Foskett survived the War.
Additional Information
Rank unknown and listed only as His Majesty’s Forces.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
