Current Information:

Born-St Luke's

Enlisted-Stratford

Bailleul Communal Cemetery, France

Harry Foster died from wounds on 2nd May, 1915, but as yet there is no information as to when and where he was wounded. 

During the First World War each infantry division included a Royal Engineers Signals Company of over 150 men, whose main duties were laying, operating and repairing telegraph communications wire. They were also used to carry messages and to handle and despatch official and private mail. The signallers were also used in forward positions to assist the artillery and provide information on their enemy targets. In these, often isolated, positions they were vulnerable to enemy fire, and many of them became casualties. During the Spring of 1915, 5th Division had been in action during the fighting around Hill 60, just to the south of Ypres.