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Lance Corporal JOHN FOSTER

Service Number: 2700469
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Scots Guards

Date of Death

Died 09 September 1944

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY

II. E. 19.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Edith Foster, of Thatto Heath, Lancashire; husband of Mary Florence Foster, of Thatto Heath.
  • Personal Inscription IN A SOLDIER'S GRAVE LIES THE DADDY WE LOVED WHO DIED THAT WE MAY LIVE. MAY HE REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

LEOPOLDSBURG WAR CEMETERY
Limburg (Belgium) Belgium
Number of casualties: 800
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