Private James Foster

Army Number : 26552

Battalion : 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Arnold, Nottinghamshire and lived at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Husband of Clara Foster of 82 Stockwell Gate, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He was as a coal miner prior to enlisting 29th May 1915 at Mansfield. He went to France 6th March 1916 and was killed in action, 12th July 1916, during a raid on German trenches near Ferme-de-Bois, France.

Private James Foster

Private James Foster article
The Mansfield Reporter and Sutton Times 28th July 1916.

Commemorated : Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-Lavoue, France. Plot 3. Row J, Grave 29.

Le Touret Memorial, France.

His brother Driver George Foster, 18th Div. Ammunition Column, Royal Field Artillery, also fell in the Great War.