Rene Summer FOSTER

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Service Number:	30
Enlisted:	20 March 1916, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	3rd Machine Gun Company
Born:	Stanmore, Middlesex, England, 1889
Home Town:	Woollahra, Woollahra, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Tram Guard
Died:	Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia, 1967, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
Memorials:

20 Mar 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 30, 9th Machine Gun Company, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
1 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 30, 9th Machine Gun Company, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: ''
1 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 30, 9th Machine Gun Company, HMAT Benalla, Sydney
9 Aug 1918:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 3rd Machine Gun Company
29 Sep 1918:	Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 30, 3rd Machine Gun Company, Wounds to the legs and thigh. Invalided on 3 October 1918
13 Oct 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 30, 3rd Machine Gun Company, Discharged at the 2nd Military District as medically unfit

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Address at the time of enlistment was 7 Moncur Place, Woollahra, NSW

Son of James John Foster and Alice Hilda Foster of 'The Nursery', Stanmore, Middlesex, England formerly of NSW

Commenceed return to Australia on 7 February 1919 aboard HT Lancashire disembarking on the 24 March 1919 at Melbourne for onward travel to Sydney

During 1919c Rene married Olive L. Bourke in the Waverley area, NSW

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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