FORSTER, Percival
| Service Number: | 4261 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 February 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 30th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Saltney, England, United Kingdom, 1882 |
| Home Town: | Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | St. Mary’s Handbridge, Chester, England |
| Occupation: | Cook |
| Died: | Pneumonia, Military Hospital, Fovant, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom, 17 February 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Baverstock (St. Edith) Churchyard |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4261, 30th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 8 Nov 1916: | Involvement Private, 4261, 30th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: SS Port Nicholson embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 8 Nov 1916: | Embarked Private, 4261, 30th Infantry Battalion, SS Port Nicholson, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 25; death incorrectly registered as Foster
Deaths Mar 1917 Foster Percy 25 Wilton 5a 353
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
The summary below was completed by Cathy Sedgwick – Facebook “WW1 Australian War Graves in England/UK
Died on this date - 17th February........Private Percy Forster 4261 was born at Saltney, Near Chester, England. He stated he was a 25 year old* Cook from Sydney when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) on 14th February, 1916.
Private Forster arrived in England on 10th January, 1917. He was AWL from midnight on 26th January until 8 pm on 27th January, 1917.
Private Forster was sent sick to Hospital on 12th February, 1917 from “B” Company, 8th Training Battalion, Hurdcott, Wiltshire.
Private Percy Forster died at 6.30 a.m. on 17th February, 1917 from Pneumonia at Military Hospital, Fovant, Wiltshire. He was buried in St. Edith’s Churchyard at Baverstock, Wiltshire where 28 other Australian WW1 Soldiers are buried.
*(According to information gathered for the Roll of Honour, completed by Percy’s twin brother Frank, Percy was aged 34 years at the time of his death.)
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