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Lance Corporal JOHN THOMAS FOSTER

Service Number: 3968947
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Dorsetshire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 09 September 1944

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SCHOONSELHOF CEMETERY

II. C. 18.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Annie Foster; husband of Violet Minnie Foster, of Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS GREATEST GIFT, HIS UNFINISHED LIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

SCHOONSELHOF CEMETERY
Antwerpen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1591
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