Private 18223 Ernest FOSTER

Private 18223 Ernest Foster{gallery}Pte E Foster{/gallery}1st Battalion, North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales) Regiment
Killed in action in France and Flanders (Battle of the Somme), 13th August 1916, aged 29

• Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Panel Ref Pier and Face 14b and 14c
• Awarded: British War and Victory Medals
• Son of Joseph and Elizabeth Foster
• Husband of Ethel Bott, formerly Foster, of Moor Lane, Sherburn-in-Elmet, South Milford, Yorks.
• NNWFHS memorial: Glascote
  

Links to relevant information

• CWGC Page for Private Foster
• NNWFHS Glascote War Memorial Page
• North Staffordshire Regiment
• Thiepval Memorial

1911 census and family history information

• Born Apt Qtr 1888, Selby, Yorkshire
• Employed as a terracotta glazer [1911]
• Lived at 9 Thomas Street, Glascote [1911]