The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A E Foster

Private Alec Edgar FOSTER, G/1797, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 1st July 1916, age 20.

Born Enfield, Middlesex, son of Thomas and Rebecca (Rebekah) Foster.

1911 Census - No.28 Station Road, Enfield, Middlesex - Thomas Foster, head, age 59, married, foreman? porter? GEW?, born Tottenham, Middlesex; Rebekah Foster, wife, age 55, married 38 years, 11 children, 8 still alive, born Enfield, Middlesex; Ernest Arthur Foster, son, age 23, single, gas fitter E G (crossed out) worker, GEW?, born Enfield, Middlesex; Alek Edgar Foster, son, age 15, single, Leamington? Parslow?, born Enfield, Middlesex.

Enlisted Tottenham, Middlesex.

26th July 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, Somme, France.

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