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Lance Corporal ALFRED FOSTER

Service Number: 20869
Regiment & Unit/Ship

South Lancashire Regiment

11th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 29 May 1917

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HOP STORE CEMETERY

Plot I. Row A. Grave 20.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Elizabeth Foster, of St. Helens.
  • Personal Inscription EVER REMEMBERED BY HIS SORROWING WIFE MAUD, AND SON WILLIAM. THY WILL BE DONE.
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Buried or commemorated at

HOP STORE CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 248
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