Robert FOSTER

FOSTER, Robert

Service Number: 5802
Enlisted: 16 December 1915, Enlisted at Enoggera, QLD
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 9th Infantry Battalion
Born: Scotland, 1881
Home Town: Mackay, Mackay, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Railway constructor
Died: Killed in Action, Belgium, 20 September 1917
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Homebush & District Honor Board, Mackay Old Town Hall Honour Roll, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)
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World War 1 Service

16 Dec 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 5802, 9th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Enoggera, QLD
4 May 1916: Involvement Private, 5802, 9th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Choon embarkation_ship_number: A49 public_note: ''
4 May 1916: Embarked Private, 5802, 9th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Choon, Brisbane

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Conflicting places of birth some information gives him as being a native of Scotland other information has him being born in Adelaide, SA

Next of kin given as a friend Alfred Goldfinch of Home Bush Sugar Mill, Mackay, QLD

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

Preciously served with the South Australian Volunteers