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FOSTER, George
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 1935 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Omeo, Victoria, Australia, 3 December 1886 |
| Home Town: | Omeo, East Gippsland, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 20 September 1917, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Boulder Roll of Honor, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Omeo State School Great European War Roll of Honor |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 2 Sep 1915: | Involvement Private, 1935, 28th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
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| 2 Sep 1915: | Embarked Private, 1935, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Anchises, Fremantle |
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At about age 20 years George moved from Omeo, Victoria, Australia to live in New Zealand where he worked as a Miner at Karangahake, Waikato, New Zealand. He married Martha Lillian Livingstone Neillie on 12 November 1908 in Paeroa, Waikato, New Zealand. George and Martha had two children while at Karangahake, Kathleen Iris Foster born 1909 and Claude George Foster born 1910.
At the outbreak of WW1, George travelled back to Australia where he enlisted in the AIF at Boulder City, Western Australia on 30 June 1915.
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