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Military service
Service number:
B/36804
Age:
28
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
April 3, 1914
Brantford, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 11, 1939
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 1.
Additional information
Son of Charles and Beatrice Foster of Brantford, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Corporal Clarence William Foster
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Brookwood Memorial
Photo taken by John S. Brehaut during the Road to Freedom Tour of 2003. -
Biography
Album of Honour for Brant County World War 11 1939 - 1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me -
Album Cover
Album of Honour for Brant County World War 11 1939 - 1945<P> Published in 1946 by The Brantford Kinsmen Club and submitted with their permission by Operation Picture Me -
Inscription
Corporal CLARENCE WILLIAM FOSTER is one of six members of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Corporal Clarence William Foster
Digital gallery of
Corporal Clarence William Foster
Digital gallery of
Corporal Clarence William Foster
Digital gallery of
Corporal Clarence William Foster
Digital gallery of
Corporal Clarence William Foster
Digital gallery of
Corporal Clarence William Foster
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 74 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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