Name
Victor William Foster
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
12/04/1942
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
6921478
Rifle Brigade
70th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HITCHIN CEMETERY
N.W. Extn. Grave 406.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
HE SHALL HIS LORD WITH RAPTURE SEE AND BE WITH HONOUR CROWNED
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St. Mark's Church Memorial, Hitchin, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
He was born in Hertfordshire and was residing in the county at the time of his enlistment. His Service Number was 6921478 and he served in the 70th Battalion. The circumstances of his death are not known but an Inquest in Cambridge gave a verdict of accidental death. He was given a military funeral with an escort of his comrades from No. 9 Platoon of the Hitchin Horne Guard, of which he had been a member, under Lieut G. R. J. Chenery. The service was in St. Mary's Church, Hitchin.
His Commonwealth War Graves Commission stone bears the additional inscription "He shall his Lord with rapture see and be with honour crowned" in Grave 406 north west Extension in Hitchin Cemetery.
He was the son of Frank and Ethel Knighton Foster of 71, Brampton Park Road, Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Paul Johnson - local historian, Herts Pictorial dated 21st April 1942
