William Edward (Snow) FOSTER

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Service Numbers:	725, R3150
Enlisted:	18 August 1914
Last Rank:	Gunner
Last Unit:	1st Field Artillery Brigade
Born:	Woolwich, London, England, 7 March 1894
Home Town:	Not yet discovered
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Painter
Died:	Pulmonary TB and gastric ulcer, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 9 January 1955, aged 60 years
Cemetery:	Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, NSW Cremated
Memorials:

18 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 725
15 Sep 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, R3150, Re-enlisted with updated next-of-kin
25 Oct 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Gunner, R3150, 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column, Re embarked from Sydney --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '22' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: ''
18 Apr 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Gunner, 1st Field Artillery Brigade, Villers-Bretonneux, Gassed.

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Son of William Foster and Sarah Caroline Foster nee Birkill of 10 Acacia Street, lstenwick, Victoria

Husband of Dorothea (Doris) Ruby Foster. William and Dorothea married during 1920 in Victoria

Commenced return to Australia on 23 April 1919 aboard HT Castalia disembarking on 29 May 1919

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Previously served in the cadets

Son of Edward and Charlotte Foster of 64 Princes Road, Plumstead, Woolwich, England

Husband of A.F. Foster of Eltham, England

Commenced return to Australia on 13 May 1919 aboard HT Bremer disembarking on the 28 July 1919

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal