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CSM. William Foster
British Army 10th Btn. B Coy. Royal Irish Rifles
William Foster was the Company Serjeant Major of B Company 10th Royal Irish Rifles whilst they were in France and became an active member of the Memorial Association.
Pte. William Henry Foster
British Army 1st Btn. Northumberland Fusliers
from:Hull
(d.18th Sep 1918)
William Henry Foster was my mother's brother. Now it is 100 years since the start of the 1st World War I just want anyone friend or relative to know that he is remembered. No one ever visited his grave at Terlincthun Wimille, France that I know of but he is remembered. I think of him often.
Pte. William Foster
British Army 16th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
(d.23rd November 1916)
Pte. William Foster
British Army 15th Battalion Machine Gun Corps
from:Port Glascow, Scotland
(d.27th June 1918)
William Foster died on 27th of June 1918 due to wounds received 4 days previously.
"Our worst fears have been realized, and your poor boy has passed away. He bore up well, in spite of the fact that the wound was so serious, and did splendidly at first. Then the wound showed signs of poisoning and it was necessary to operate and remove the shrapnel. He was a man of great spirit and bore it bravely and patiently, but his strength failed him. For the last four days he was getting weaker. The end came peacefully and painlessly yesterday." letter from Reverend W. S. Kirkpatrick
Pte. William Foster
British Army 15th Battalion Machine Gun Corps
from:Port Glasgow, Scotland
(d.27th June 1918)
William Foster was the second son of the Foster boys to die for King and Country, his brother David died at Gallipoli 1915. My cousin Billy and I visited his grave at D'Aubigny en Artois in September 2019.
A Newspaper article reporting his death quoted the letter from a Padre: Our worst fears have been realized, and your poor boy has passed away. He bore up well, in spite of the fact that the wound was so serious, and did splendidly at first. Then the wound showed signs of poisoning and it was necessary to operate and remove the shrapnel. He was a man of Great Spirit and bore it bravely and patiently, but his strength failed him. For the last four days he was getting weaker. The end came peacefully and painlessly yesterday. Letter from Reverend W. S. Kirkpatrick
Capt. Reginald Hannay Fothergill MID
Royal Army Medical Corps 36th Field Ambulance
from:Dalton in Furness
Pte. William Fothergill
British Army 10th Btn. Manchester Regiment.
from:Oldham
(d.7th Feb 1916)
My great uncle William Fothergill was buried in the Point 110 New Military Cemetery at Fricourt. His death is given as Feb.7th 1916, which is a mystery as the Regiment only arrived in France via Marseilles from Egypt on February 27th.1916. Someday I might find out where he was killed?
Pte William Fothergill
British Army King Edward's Horse
L/Cpl. George Ernest Fouchard
British Army Manchester Regiment
from:Hulme, Manchester
L/Cpl. Walter Foulds
British Army 8th Btn King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment
from:Rawtenstall
(d.28th Sept 1918)
Pte. Alfred Foulger
British Army 8th Battalion Norfolk Regiment
from:Depwade, Norfolk
(d.17th May 1917)
Alfred Foulger is my Great, Great, Grand Uncle. I am researching my family history and discovered he died in France in 1917 while serving under the Norfolk Regiment. However, I am interested where they were in May 1917. He was in the 8th Battalion.
He is commemorated in Arras, sadly without a grave.
Spr. Charles Henry Foulkes
British Army 104th Field Company Royal Engineers
from:Ladywood, Birmingham
My Grandfather, Charles Henry Foulkes served with 104 Field Company. Royal Engineers. At present I do not have his Service record even though I have searched for it on Ancestry. What I do know is that my Grandfather was a small man of height and stature. I was also told by my Aunt that a French lady shouted at him when he was leaving, 'English go home', after what he had been through it seemed an insult to him.
Pte. Thomas Foulkes
British Army 1st/10th Btn. Manchester Regiment
(d.21st Nov 1917)
Thomas Foulkes was executed for desertion on 21/11/1917, aged 21. His name is on the Loos Memorial in the Dud Corner Cemetery, Loos, France.
Dvr. Walter Joseph Foulkes
British Army 8th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Hulme, South Manchester
Walter was born 16 Aug 1894 in Eccles as Walter Foulkes, son of Charles Edward Foulkes and Mary Jane Bennett. He grew up using the surname of his stepfather John Nolan, but enlisted as Walter Nolan in the 8th Lancashire Fusiliers in Salford, in June 1913. He tTransferred to the Machine Gun Corps, 125th Coy in 1916. He was demobilized in March 1919. He lived on as Walter Foulkes, but in his contacts with the Army (application for enlistment in the Army Reserves in 1921, his medals etc.) he always was Nolan, and his address that of his mother and stepfather.
Rfn. Arthur Charles Foulsham
British Army 2/12th (2nd Rangers) Btn. London Regiment
(d.23rd May 1917)
Pte. Charles Alexander "Carl" Foulsham
British Army 5th Btn. Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry
from:Fulham, London
Charles Foulsham served as a Private from 1914-1920 in the Royal Engineers and A Company, 1/5th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Between 1916 and 1918 inclusive, he served on the Western Front as part of Pioneers 61st Division and was wounded which resulted in him having shrapnel in his back for the rest of his life.
His brother, Percy, was in the Rifle Brigade which was going in to relieve the Duke of Cornwall's just as Charles was being brought out on a stretcher. The two passed each other on the road but Percy wasn't given permission to break ranks to see his brother. It could have been, but fortunately wasn't, their last chance to see each other.
Charles was admitted to No. 34 (1st West Lancashire) Casualty Clearing Station on 25th of October 1918 and was transferred to AT11.
Sgt Harry Shirley Foulsham
Royal Flying Corps 6 Squadron
from:36 East Dulwich Rd, London SE
Shirley Foulsham joined the army on 21st October 1914 serving with the City of London Yeomanry. He transferred to RFC in 1916 and was a Sergeant Observer and aerial gunner on photographic reconnaissance, flying in RE8 aircraft with 6 squadron in Belgium. I have aerial photographs taken by him. He is in a photograph on this website with a sergeant pilot/navigator wearing goggles under the details of Hector Cameron Gardner.
Shirley Foulsham, who was my father, was shot down on 3rd September 1917 and captured near Menin with a machine gun bullet in his left wrist and taken to Courtrai Hospital for 3 days before going to Magdeburg Hospital in Germany as a p.o.w. from 9th September. He was repatriated on 12th January 1918. He was debriefed on arrival in UK and the record is in the National Archive Ref: WO/161/100/112. He convalesced on a farm in Stradbroke, Suffolk where his father had been a dispensing chemist. He married Martha Catling who was the farmer`s eldest daughter. He later became a representative for Fisons Fertilisers. In WW2 he became a Captain in the Home Guard and a town, district and county Councillor and JP. He died on 9th December 1972.
Cpl. Harold Ernest "Joe" Fountain
British Army 2/4th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment
from:Windsor
(d.19th July 1916)
Joe Fountain was killed by enemy shelling at Fromelles, France.
Pte. Richard Fountain
British Army 1st/6th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Birmingham
(d.22th May 1916)
Richard Fountain arrived in France on 22nd March 1915. He was wounded and died of his wounds at the CSS at Gezaincourt on 22nd May 1916.
Pte. Thomas Fountain
British Army 4th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Bermondsey, London
(d.2nd June 1915)
Thomas Fountain is my first cousin three times removed on my maternal father's side of the family. He was the son of George and Eliza Fountain of Bermondsey, London. He was 22 when he died and is one of the thousands without a known grave. Thomas is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
Pte. Edward Francis Fowell
British Army Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Broadstairs, Kent
My grandad, Eddie Fowell, always said he was sent to the front for borrowing a weekend pass. He enlisted with the Queens Royal Regiment (West Surrey) and at some point he was transferred into the Lincolnshire Regiment. He was wounded by shrapnel on 9th of April 1918, age 21, whilst stretcher-bearing in or around the churchyard at Bailleul in France. Eddie survived the war and died aged 88 in 1986.
Pte. Frederick Fowell
British Army 18th battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
from:33 Satchwell Rents, Bethnal Green East, London
(d.1st Jun 1918)
My grandmother's brother Frederick Fowell started army life in the London Rifle Brigade but some how found him self in the Lancashire Fusiliers. I'mm researching him at the moment and would be grateful of any help. He was laid to rest in Martinsart Cemetary. He died around the Aveluy Wwood area as it was being counter attacked on June the first. A lot of his battalion died or their date of death are on the 1st of June 1918.
Pte John Joseph Fowell
British Army 23rd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Hackney, London
(d.20th July 1916)
John Fowell served with the 23rd Seige Battery Royal Garrison Artillery in WW1. He died 20th of July 1916 and is buried Blighty Valley Cemetery, Authuille Wood in France
Pte. Albert Fowler
British Army 1st Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
from:Burnley, Lancs
(d.20th May 1918)
Albert Fowler died of wounds on the 20th of May 1918, aged 41 and is buried in the Etaples Military Cemetery in France. He was the husband of M. A. Fowler, of 150 Cog Lane, Burnley, Lancs. Native of Burnley.
2Lt. Alfred Charles Garrett "Garrie" Fowler
Royal Air Force 215 Squadron
from:Hitchin, Herts
(d.20th September 1918)
Alfred Fowler served with 215 Squadron. Acclimating to Handley Page O/400 aircraft after 215 Squadron updates O/100s. In Alquines from 4th of July 1918 to 19th of August 1918, when the squadron transferred to Xaffevillers Aerodrome. 2/Lt A.C.G. Fowler was a new pilot, transferring from RNAS to RAF on 1st of April 1918. He was killed with 2/Lt C C Eaves and 2/Lt J S Ferguson on a night bombing raid on Frescary Aerodrome on 20th of September, 1918 during a full moon.
L/Cpl. Christopher Edward Fowler MM.
Australian Imperial Forces C Coy. 33rd Btn.
from:Barry, NSW, Australia
My Uncle Christy Fowler enlisted on the 10th of November 1915, aged 18. He was a labourer from Barry, NSW. He joined the 13th Reinforcements, 17th Battalion at Lithogow Depot Camp and in June 1916 he proceeded to England, arriving in Plymouth on the 3rd of August. On the 6th July 1916 he is recorded as disobeying orders and being absent without leave at Capetown from the troopship HMAT A.55 Kyarra and was given 3 days Field Punishment No.2.
Christopher then joined the 33rd Battalion on the 21st November 1916 in France. In December he was admitted to the 7th General Hospital (The Malassises Hospital) in St Omer suffering from mumps, he rejoined the 33rd battalion on new years day 1917. On the 12th March 1917 he is again punished for failing to obey a lawful command given by his superior officer.
He was promoted to Lance Corporal on the 2nd of June 1917 and saw action in the Battle of Messines, where he was awarded the Military Medal, his citation reads:
"For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during the Battle of Messines Ridge from June 7th to June 11th. L/C Christopher Edward Fowler acted a a mopper up and showed great dash and determination. He himself killed six of the enemy. On the afternoon of June 9th he led the first patrol to Thatched Cottage and captured the post. Throughout the whole action this soldier displayed great initiative and forethought, and at all times was courageous and cool. He set a splendid example to his men."
He was wounded in action on the 16th July 1917 receiving a gun shot wound to his left eye. On the 24th July he was transported back to England onboard the Hospital Ship Grantully Castle and on the 25th was admitted to the 3rd London General Hospital at Wandsworth. Whilst there he was reprimanded by Lt. Col. Heywood for refusing to obey and order and went Absent without Leave for 6 hours on the 14th Sept 1917 for which he forfeited one day's pay.
Christy was repatriated to Australia leaving England on board the Kenilworth Castle on the 12th of March 1918. He was discharged from the Army on the 3rd of July 1918.
Cpl. Christpher Edward Fowler MM.
Australian Imperial Force. 33rd Btn.
from:Barry, NSW
I met Uncle Christie Fowler on one occasion when I was about 12 years of age. I remember he wasn't very tall, maybe 5'6" and very reserved in his outlook. My grandmother Charlotte Fowler did show me the original document in regards to Christy's award of the Military Medal. Over the years I have managed to receive some photos and photo copies of him. During my short time with him, I remember informing him when I would be old enough I would join the defence forces. His reply which I remember distinctly was, 'Don't volunteer for anything!'.
Pte. David Fowler
British Army 1/5th Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
from:Catrine, Ayrshire
(d.12th July 1915)
David Fowler was born on 17th February, 1895, in Catrine, Ayrshire. I do not know when he enlisted, but on the 21st May, 1915, he and his battalion embarked for Gallipoli from Liverpool on board RMS Mauretania. They arrived in Mudros, Greece, on 29th May briefly before moving on to Gallipoli on 7th June.
Lead by Lieutenant-Colonel J.B. Pollok-McCall, the battalion numbered around 900 men. It would have been a baptism of fire for David as the historians tell us that their first rest camp was heavily shelled. The battalion was put into the front line almost right away to relieve units of the 29th Division, resulting in many casualties of which David was not one. For a month, the battalion waited in rest camps (that would not have afforded much rest) until allied victories won the Gulley Ravine, clearing a path to Krithia. It was this final push on the Turkish front between Kereves Dere and Achi Baba nullah that brought David's life and story to a close. For the battle, henceforth known as "The Attempt on Achi Baba", the 155th Brigade formed the centre of a staggered three-prong attack. The 5th Battalion (David's) were in brigade reserve. The centre attack comprised of four waves, and on the fourth wave General Erskine sent in two companies of the 5th Battalion to support the 5th King's Own Scottish Borderers. It is entirely likely that David was one of those men sent forward, for on that day he was killed in action.
His name, among many others, can be found on the Helles Memorial. It's sad to say that the only story I can contribute are the cold facts.
Pte. Frederick William Fowler
British Army 68th Coy Machine Gun Corps
from:London
(d.9th Jun 1917)
2nd Lt. George Glyn Fowler
British Army Kings Royal Rifle Corps
(d.25th Sep 1915)
2nd Lt. George Glyn Fowler served in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps and was killed in action during the Battle of Loos on the 25th September 1915, aged 19.
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