Boyd FOSTER

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Service Number:	240
Enlisted:	1 March 1916, Enlisted in Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	5th Machine Gun Company
Born:	Brighton, Victoria, Australia, 1894
Home Town:	Cheltenham, Bayside, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Gardener
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 17 March 1945, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne Cremated on the 19 March 1945. Interred in the Grevillia area, Garden 1, Bed A16, Rose 02 held in perpetuity for all time. Commemorated with a plaque in the Victorian Garden of Remembrance
Memorials:

1 Mar 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 240, 15th Machine Gun Company, Enlisted in Melbourne, Victoria
4 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 240, 15th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: ''
4 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 240, 15th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Port Lincoln, Melbourne
8 Aug 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 5th Machine Gun Company, From the 15th Machine Gun Company
19 Jul 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 240, 5th Machine Gun Company, Gassed
16 Aug 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 240, 5th Machine Gun Company, Discharged at the 3rd Military District

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Son of Ambrose Foster and Mary Ann Foster nee Watts of Kingston Road, Cheltenham, Victoria

During 1920 Boyd married Doris Grace Adams in Victoria

Commenced return to Australia 5 July 1945 on board HT Port Melbourne disembarking on the 20 August 1919

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

Previously served in the Citizen Military Forces and the Senior Cadets