Main CPGW Record
Surname: FOSTER
Forename(s): Richard
Place of Birth: Ingleton, Yorkshire
Service No: 17709
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)
Battalion / Unit: 1/4th Battalion
Division: 49th (West Riding) Division
Age: 27
Date of Death: 1918-07-10
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Panel 82 to 85.
CWGC Cemetery: ---
CWGC Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: AUSTWICK, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Richard Foster was the son of James and Dorothy Brennon Foster, née Calvert. James was born at Ingleton, Yorkshire and Dorothy at Gressingham, Lancashire.
1901 Ingleton, Yorkshire Census: 2, The Hill - Richard Foster, aged 9 years, born Ingleton, son of James and Dorothy Foster.
1911 Burton-in-Lonsdale, Yorkshire Census: Lowfields - Richard Foster, aged 19 years, born Ingleton, Yorkshire. [Richard was employed by William Blacow, Farmer. In 1881 Richard's mother had been employed as a domestic servant by William Blacow at Lowfields Farm.]
The British Army Service Record for Richard Foster exists but may be incomplete. [The record states that the Army Council decided, for official purposes, that he was regarded to have died sometime between 10 April and the 10 July 1918.]
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Richard Foster, 17709, 2nd W. Rid. R.; 9th W. Rid. R.; 1/5th W. Rid. R.; 8th W. Rid. R.; 1/4th W. Rid. R. Deceased.
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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Private Richard FOSTER
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 49th (West Riding) Division
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15 February 1918
ELDROTH – On Leave
Private James Garth, Browside Farm, and Private Richard Foster, Lawkland, of the Duke of Wellington’s, have been over on final leave from King Edward’s Schools, North Shields, before leaving for France. Private John Edward Bentham, Blaithwaite, has also been over from France on leave.
31 January 1919
MISSING
MR. and MRS. JAMES FOSTER, of Lawkland, Austwick, would be very grateful for any news concerning their son, Private Richard Foster, 17709, 1/4th Duke of Wellington’s W.R. Regiment, wounded and taken prisoner on April 10th, 1918.
30 January 1920
AUSTWICK – HOPE ABANDONED
Mr. and Mrs. James Foster, Bank End, Lawkland, received notice on the 19th inst. from the War Office, that their son, Pte. Richard Foster, who was wounded and taken prisoner on April 10th, 1918, is supposed to have died in the hands of the Germans some time between April 10th and July 10th, 1918, as all efforts to obtain any definite news of him have been in vain. Pte. R. Foster enlisted in Dec. 1915, and was drafted out to France in May, 1916. He was invalided to England in September of the same year after a severe attack of typhoid fever. He was drafted to France again in June, 1917, and was very badly gassed in the following August, being sent again to England. He returned to France in February, 1918, not having fully recovered from the effects of the gas. He was reported wounded and missing on April 10th, 1918. He was 26 years of age, and before joining the Army was employed on farm work. Private Foster was a native of Ingleton.
16 April 1920
FOSTER – In loving memory of our dear son and brother, Private Richard Foster, who died a prisoner in Germany, April 19th, 1918.
Two years have passed, and still we miss you,
Only those who have lost can tell
Of the grief that’s borne in silence
For the one we loved so well.
Some day we hope to meet him,
Some day we know not when,
To clasp his hand in a better land,
Never to part again.
From Father, Mother and Brothers, Bank End, Lawkland.
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