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Flight Sergeant Earl Sydney Foster

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Military service

Service number: R/ 74787
Age: 23
Rank: Flight Sergeant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: 73 (R.A.F.) Sqdn
Birth: June 25, 1918 Assinaboa, Manitoba
Enlistment: October 16, 1940 Vancouver, British Columbia
Death: February 10, 1942

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: 23. A. 4.
Additional information

Son of Sydney Frank and Ruby Virginia (nee Revercomb) Foster, of Victoria, British Columbia.

Additional citations

1939-45 Star, Africa Star, War Medal 1939-45, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp. Posthumously awarded RCAF Operational Wings in recognition of gallant service in action against the enemy, the 22 February 1946.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 74 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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HALFAYA SOLLUM WAR CEMETERY Egypt

HALFAYA SOLLUM WAR CEMETERY is on the main coast road from Mersa Matruh through to Libya, and is on the east side of Halfaya Sollum, approximately 12 kilometres from the Egypt/Libya border.

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