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Military service
Service number:
772351
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
August 29, 1898
London, England
Enlistment:
December 9, 1915
Stratford, Ontario
Death:
February 18, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. A. 5.
Additional information
Foster son of Mrs. Ellen Hunt, of Brantford, Ontario. He listed his sister, Miss Nellie Foster, c/o Annie McPherson Home, in Stratford, Ontario as his next of kin. Stating he was a farmer and single. It is quite possible that he is one of the Dr. Barnardo `Home Boys` who sailed from Liverpool, England to Quebec City, Quebec in 1909, onboard the S.S. Tunisian, along with his nine year old sister Ellen (Nellie), Destination - Stratford, Ontario. Information courtesy of Merrickville Memorial Project, May 2002.
Digital gallery of Private Arthur John Foster
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Memorial Page
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Merrickville Remembers
This project was sponsored jointly by the Canadian Legion Branch 245 and the Merrickville District Community Health Centre. Serving on the Committee were Jack Jessop, Past President of Legion Branch 245; Joyce McKay, who lost a brother in the Second World War; Peter McKenna, Executive Director of Merrickville and District Community Health Centre; and Jack Wilcox, who upon discharge from the Canadian Army in 1945, prepared the Sydney Academy Memorial Booklet honouring the students of the Academy who gave their lives in the Second World War. -
Honour roll
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Circumstances of death
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Monument
Arthur Foster British home child
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Private Arthur John Foster
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur John Foster
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur John Foster
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur John Foster
Digital gallery of
Private Arthur John Foster
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 409 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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