BORN HULL 1881. SON OF JOHN AND SARAH FOSTER. HUSBAND TO ELEANOR FOSTER, WHO LIVED AT, 9 ELLIS TERRACE, WASSAND STREET (1911 CENSUS) AND 34 , WALCOTT STREET, HULL. A DOCK LABOURER. HE HAD PREVIOUSLY SERVED 19 YEARS IN THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT AND WAS STATIONED IN INDIA, SOME YEARS BEFORE.
HE RE-ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A PRIVATE, IN THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, IN FRANCE FROM 09/11/1914. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 04/10/1917, AGED 36. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, ELEANOR. HE IS COMMEMORATED AT TYNE COT CEMETERY, BELGIUM.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILTY MAIL, ON 17/101/1917. *
First name:
ALBERT
Regiment:
Military Number:
6307
Rank:
Private
Date Died
04/10/1917
Place died:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
36
