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Private Harold Foster

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name: Foster, Harold
Date of birth: 1888-08-21
Place of birth: Havant Hampshire England
Next of kin: F.G. Foster (father), Earl Grey, Saskatchewan
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): homestead farmer
Occupation (normalized): General Farmer
Address: Same address
Date of death: 1917-10-30
Cause of death: Killed in action
Buried: Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial, Panel 10 - 58

MILITARY INFORMATION

Regimental number: 105581
Rank detail

Private, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Infantry (Army).

Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: Passchendaele

RESEARCH INFORMATION

CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try this.
CWGC ID: 1592236
LAC ID: 400055
Attestation record(s): image 1, image 2
Service file: B3230-S008
Uploader's Notes:

Original overseas unit 68th Canadian Infantry Battalion. Joined the P.P.C.L.I. in the field June 10, 1916.

Son of Francis George Foster of Earl Grey, Saskatchewan, and the late Georgina Foster.

Uploader's Research notes:

Saskatchewan Virtual War Memorial

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has his service number wrong, it isn't 105561 but 105581. Sources are the Library and Archives Canada and the book Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry 1914-1918 by Ralph Hodder-Williams, Volume Two, Roll of Honour & Appendices, page 177. [Private Army Canadian Infantry Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry ]

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2014-05-11