Stanley Arthur FOSTER MM

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Service Number:	3761
Enlisted:	30 July 1915, Enlisted at Coleraine, Victoria
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	14th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Luton, England, 1893
Home Town:	Coleraine, Southern Grampians, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Tailor
Died:	Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, 1977, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

30 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3761, 8th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Coleraine, Victoria
23 Nov 1915:	Embarked Private, 3761, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ceramic, Adelaide
23 Nov 1915:	Involvement Private, 3761, 8th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: ''
13 Aug 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 14th Infantry Battalion, From the 8th Battalion
10 Feb 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 3761, 8th Infantry Battalion, Gassed
20 Feb 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 14th Infantry Battalion
5 Sep 1918:	Honoured Military Medal, For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Morocourt on 8 August 1818. London Gazette on 24 January 1919, page 1251, position 70 Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 May 1919, page 898, position 21
27 Sep 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 14th Infantry Battalion, In France
10 Jul 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 3761, 14th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 3rd Military District

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Son of Annie Foster of McLeod Street, Coleraine, Victoria

Commenced return to Australia on 5 April 1915 aboard HT Armagh disembarking on the 18 May 1919

Medals: Military Medal, !914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal