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Gunner WILLIAM CORBETT FOSTER

Service Number: 845
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

V/46th Heavy Trench Mortar Bty.

Date of Death

Died 08 January 1917

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FONCQUEVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY

I. H. 35.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George Henry and Eliza Jane Foster, of Corbett House, Bushbury Rd., Fallins Park, Wolverhampton.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT WE MIGHT LIVE
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Buried or commemorated at

FONCQUEVILLERS MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 658
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