Frederick Holden FOSTER

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FOSTER, Frederick Holden

Service Number:	192
Enlisted:	13 March 1915, Enlisted at Mildura, Victoria
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	24th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia, 1891
Home Town:	Merbein, Mildura Shire, Victoria
Schooling:	State School Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Farm Labourer
Died:	GSW to Sacrum, At sea on board HS Assaye off Malta, 9 October 1915
Cemetery:	Pieta Military Cemetery Plot A, Row X1V, Grave 1 Chaplain A.J. McKinnon officiated Headstone inscription reads: He gave his life for the Empire,
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

13 Mar 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 192, 24th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Mildura, Victoria
10 May 1915:	Involvement Private, 192, 24th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: ''
10 May 1915:	Embarked Private, 192, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne
4 Oct 1915:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 192, 24th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, SW to lower spine (sacrum bone) sustained in the trenches at Lone Pine. Evacuated to Malta via HS Assaye, however died enroute on 9 October 1915.

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Son of Angus Holden Foster and Jessie foster of 'The Cedars', Merbein, Victoria

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

Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Private Frederick Holden Foster was born in 1891 to Jessie and Angus Holden Foster of Merbein, Victoria, Australia. Prior to enlistment, Frederick had worked as a labourer in Murrumbeena, Victoria. He embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Euripides on 10 May 1915 as a member of the 24th Australian Infantry Battalion, bound for Egypt. On 9 October 1915, Frederick died at sea, unable to recover from wounds received at Gallipoli. He is buried in the Pieta Military Cemetery on Malta. His headstone is inscribed: “He gave his life for the empire.”

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His brother Angus John Foster also fell.

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