Henry Albert FOSTER

FOSTER, Henry Albert

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 and Crematorium, 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
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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

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

 

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