Private Leslie Cecil Foster

Army Number : 307000

Battalion : 2/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Hull and son of Tom Edward and Eliza Ann Foster, of 86, Village Road, Hull. He lived at 81 Westcott Street, Hull and enlisted at Hull. He was killed in action, 7th April 1917, aged 19, during the attack at Le Verguier, north-west of Saint Quentin, France.

Buried: Vadencourt British Cemetery, Maissemy, France. Plot 2. Row A. Grave 50.

Vadencourt British Cemetery, Maissemy, France.

Private Leslie Cecil Foster grave
Photograph of headstone kindly supplied by Barry Sisson.