Private Fred Foster

Army Number : 15264

Battalion : 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Guyhirn, Cambridgeshire. Son of Needham and Mary Ann Foster, of Bank Side, Guyhirn, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. He was a porter for the Great Central Railway at Shireoaks, Nottinghamshire. He enlisted at Worksop, Nottinghamshire and was killed in action, 15th October 1916, aged 22, in the attack on Cloudy Trench, near Gueudecourt, France, during the Battle of the Somme.

Private Fred Foster

Private Fred Foster article
Images of Private Fred Foster, article and of local war memorial kindly supplied by Susan Foster.

Commemorated : Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Thiepval Memorial, France.

Private Fred Foster is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St Mary Magdelene Church War Memorial, High Road, Guyhirn, Cambridgeshire.

St Mary Magdelene Church War Memorial, High Road, Guyhirn, Cambridgeshire.
St Mary Magdelene Church War Memorial, High Road, Guyhirn, Cambridgeshire.

His brother Private Charles Foster 1/1st Cambridgeshire Regiment also fell in the Great War.