Ref ID: 8072
Name
Leonard Lacelles Foster.
Description
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Certificate relating to Private Leonard Lacelles Foster.
Life Story
Name: Leonard Lacelles Foster.
Service Number: 27473.
Rank: Private.
Battalion: 15th Battalion.
Regiment: Canadian Infantry.
Born: 23rd November 1893, Belfast.
Died: 24th April 1915.
Address: 13 Esmond Street, Belfast
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Leonard Foster, son of John and Sarah Foster, Stepson of Jane, lived at 13 Esmond Street, Shankill Road, Belfast
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Leonard joined the Canadian Infantry at Valcartier for the Duration of War on the 18th September 1914.
He left aboard the S.S Megantic on the 4th of October 1914.
Leonard was a Private in D Company, 15th Battalion, Canadian Infantry when he was Killed In Action on the 24th April 1915 aged 21 years
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A local newspaper article states.
Mr Walter S Foster, 86 Dufferin Avenue, Bangor, is very anxious for information regarding his brother, Private Leonard Foster, D Company, 48th Highlanders,. 15th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Canadian Contingent, from whom he has not heard since the onslaught at Ypres. He has exhausted every source of information available without success in his effort to trace his whereabouts
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His Canadian World War I CEF Personnel Files show his Stepmothers address as 28 Brownlow Street, Shankill Road, Belfast and his brother Walter, who lived at 86 Dufferin Avenue, Bangor, now as 5903 Eggliston Avenue, Chicago Illinois
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Leonard received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1914-1915 Star.
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He is Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
To Remember Is To Honour
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Theme
Shankill Roll of Honour
Date
0
Classification
Book or Journal,
Certificate/Permit,
Certificate/Permit
