Ernest Henry FOSTER

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Service Number:	VX25454
Enlisted:	11 June 1940, Enlisted at Caulfield
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/21st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Hampstead, England, United Kingdom, 26 November 1913
Home Town:	Miners Rest, Ballarat North, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Motor / Tractor Driver.
Died:	Illness, Ambon, Netherlands East Indies, 25 June 1944, aged 30 years
Cemetery:	Ambon War Cemetery, Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia CWGC Grave No: Plot 20. Row B. Grave 2. Inscription: "HIS DUTY FEARLESSY AND NOBLY DONE EVER REMEMBERED BY HIS LOVING PARENTS".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, VX25454
11 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Private, VX25454, Enlisted at Caulfield
11 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX25454
17 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Ambon, Captured and detained by the Japanese Occupation Force, at Tan Toey (Tantui) Prisoner of War (P.O.W.) Camp, Ambon Island.
25 Jun 1944:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 2nd/21st Infantry Battalion, Ambon, Member of Gull Force, died on this date whilst a prisoner of the Japanese. Nature of death recorded as beri beri and pneumonia.

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Son of William James and Florence Vera Foster of Charlton, Oxfordshire, England

Died while Prisoner of War

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