Lance Corporal 3968947 John Thomas Foster

BMD details:
Marriage: 2nd Qtr 1940 John Thomas Foster to Violet M Unsworth at Ince, Lancashire. Vol 8c - Page 358.

Family details:
Son of Thomas and Annie Foster; husband of Violet Minnie Foster, of Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire.

Census details:
1939 Register. Unfortunately John T and three other members of the household are redacted. Father Thomas Foster born 11/03/1880 a Builders Labourer, mother Annie Foster born 15/03/1887 an Unpaid Domestic and brother Ellis Foster born 09/04/1921 a Colliery Surface Labourer are living at 41 Holt Cressent, Billinge.

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[url=lmem.php?lmem=39]Remembered On The St. Aidan's C of E Church Memorial[/url]

Lance Corporal 3968947 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment (formally Lance Corporal 2/5th Battalion Welsh Regiment) Tommy was born on the 15th of November 1915 the son of Thomas and Annie Foster of 168 Main Street, Billinge, and was baptised on the 16th of January 1916 at St. Aidan's C.E. Church. He attended St. Aidan's school. The family moved to 41 Holt Crescent and Tommy worked as a gardener at Rainford Hall before being called up in April 1940 to join the Welsh Regiment. While on leave he married Violet Minnie Unsworth of 33 Cansfield Grove, Ashton-in-Makerfield at St. Peter's C.E. Church on the 15th of June 1940. He was transferred from the Welsh to the Dorsetshire Regiment, and about five weeks later in N.W. Europe a mortar landed in the trench that he was in. He was brought out by two stretcher bearers, but died shortly after on Saturday the 9th of September 1944. Tommy is buried in Schoonselhof Cemetery, Antwerp, Belgium, grave II.C.18. He was 28 years old. His widow received his medals:- 1939-1945 Star France and Germany Star 1939-1945 Defence Medal 1939-1945 War Medal His name is recorded on St. Aidan's C.E. Church Memorial. Sources:- Widow; St. Aidan's Church Registers; St. Aidan's Parish Magazine, October 1944; The Wigan Observer, 30th of September 1944; The Wigan Examiner, 3rd of October 1944; The St. Helens Newspaper, 29th of September 1944. [url=http://sthelens-connect.net/sitefiles/billinge-history.pdf]Information Courtesy of The Billinge History Society[/url]