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Military service
Service number:
A/21704
Age:
23
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Essex Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
January 1, 1919
Big Point, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 13, 1939
Windsor, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 3.
Additional information
Son of Raymond and Patricia Foster, of Wallaceburg, Ontario. Husband of Patricia Irene Foster of Harrow, Middlesex.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal Joseph Augustine Foster
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Brookwood Memorial
Photo taken by John S. Brehaut during the Road to Freedom Tour of 2003. -
Inscription
Lance Corporal JOSEPH AUGUSTINE FOSTER is one of four members of the Essex Scottish Regiment, 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. -
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Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Joseph Augustine Foster
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Joseph Augustine Foster
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal Joseph Augustine Foster
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 74 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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