Henry Albert FOSTER

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Service Number:	NX10196
Enlisted:	19 March 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion
Born:	St Ives, New South Wales, 16 September 1906
Home Town:	St Ives Chase, Ku-ring-gai, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Barber
Died:	Illness, New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia, 23 June 1946, aged 39 years
Cemetery:	Macquarie Park Cemetery & Crematorium, North Ryde, New South Wales Church of England, Row U5, Grave 0062, Macquarie Park Cemetery and Crematorium, Ryde, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

19 Mar 1940:	Enlisted Private, NX10196, Paddington, New South Wales
19 Mar 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX10196
4 May 1940:	Embarked Private, NX10196, Embarked for overseas from Sydney
23 Jun 1946:	Involvement Private, NX10196, 2nd/2nd Machine Gun Battalion

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Son of William Thomas and Violet Henrietta Foster; husband of Eileen Joyce Foster; father of Marlene

6 April 1941 - embarked in the Middle East for service in Greece.

29 May 1941 - AWOL fined 5/-

20 August 1941 - charged with using indecent langauge to a superior officer and striking a superior officer. Sentence suspended

9 August 1943 - Embarked at Cairns for Milne Bay

Medals: 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with 8th Army Clasp, Pacific Star, Defence Medal, War Medal, Australian Service Medal

Returned from Active Service Badge number A80211