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Name Edward Foster No. 13290
VC Issue No. 811 Awards VC
Regiment East Surrey Regiment, 13th Battalion
Later
Now Princess of Wales Royal Regiement
Rank VC Won Corporal
Rank End Of Career Corporal
Place Of Birth Tooting Grove, Streatham, London, England
Place Of Death St James's Hospital, Tooting, London, England
Buried/Location Ashes Streatham Cemetery, Garratt Lane, Tooting, London, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 5 February 1946
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Section F15, Grave 357
Gazetted 27 June 1917
VC Presented 21 July 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Streatham Cemetery, Garratt Lane, Tooting, London, England
P Foster's Way, King George's Park, off Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, South London
P Named on Victoria Cross & George Cross Memorial, Town Hall, Wandsworth, South London
P Named on Oak Panel, All Saints Church, Kingston-upon-Thames, South West London
P Memorial Stone, Foster's Way, King George's Park, off Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, South London
By The Way…
Before the war he worked on the Dustcarts, after the war he was Inspector of Carts
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
BORN 4 February 1886
DIED 22 January 1946 AGE 59
VC Won 24 April 1917 AGE 31
Place VC Won Villers Plouich, France
War/Campaign First World War 1917
