Ernest Victor FOSTER

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Service Number:	1902
Enlisted:	20 January 1916, Enlisted at Casula, NSW
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	57th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 6 July 1897
Home Town:	Rozelle, Leichhardt, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Butcher
Died:	Coronary Thrombosis, 68 Memorial Avenue, Blackwell, New South Wales, Australia , 9 March 1958, aged 60 years
Cemetery:	Point Clare General Cemetery, New South Wales, Australia Anglican Section 9, Row 1, Grave 24 Headstone inscription reads: Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his life
Memorials:

20 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1902, 59th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Casula, NSW
4 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 1902, 59th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '20' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Port Lincoln embarkation_ship_number: A17 public_note: ''
4 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 1902, 59th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Port Lincoln, Melbourne
10 Sep 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 57th Infantry Battalion, From the 59th Battalion
19 Dec 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1902, 57th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at the 2nd Military District

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Son of Ernest Foster and Eliza L. Foster nee Platt of 226 Mullin Street, Rozelle, NSW

During 1945c Ernest married Agnes Maude Minnie Ezzy in the Burwood area, NSW

Commenced return to Australia on 15 May 1919 on board HT Orontes disembarking on the 1 July 1919

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

Previously served in the Militia for three years

Ernest was aged 18 years and six months when he enlisted however declared he was 21 years old.

Nephew to Sergeant Thomas Charles Foster (12/10/1869 - 21/06/1916) - Service number 2201 - Hospital Transport Corps.

Nephew to (unmarried) Sister Edith Annie Foster - (08/09/1874 - 24/05/1949) - No. 2 Australian General Hospital.

Ernest married Vera Mary Margaret Luck (1899 - 1925) in Burwood N.S.W 1920 and had two daughters.

Unfortunately their daughter Doris born 1922 died of Tuberculosis Meningitis in 1923.

Ernest's wife Vera died of Pulmonary Tuberculosis 1925.

Their daughter Vera Jean (1920 - 2007) known as Jean was raised by Ernest's mother Eliza Louisa.

Ernest had three children to Agnes Maude Minnie Butler (nee Ezzy). (1891 - 1955).

They were:-

Beryl, Nola Joan and Ernest Victor.