Name: FOSTER, FREDERICK JOHN
Initials: F J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Lance Serjeant
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery
Unit Text: 67 Medium Regt.
Age: 28
Date of Death: 02/02/1945
Service No: 1553022
Additional information: Son of William and Sarah Anne Foster; husband of Dorothy May Foster, of Chesham, Buckinghamshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: VI. 307.
Cemetery: BRUNSSUM WAR CEMETERY
Adopted by: Familie Beaujean

 

“According to our records, Lance Serjeant Foster was one of 18 casualties recovered from Schimmert and reburied in Brunssum war Cemetery in July 1946.  There were 2 plots at Schimmert.  The first plot containing 12 casualties was located to the North-East of Schimmert, in the vicinity of the junction of Leeuwenkuilsweg and Mareweg.  The other plot of 6 casualties was to the North-West along the Langstraat.  We do not have photographs of either of these plots.

Source - Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Lance Serjeant, 1553022, 67 Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery. Died on Friday 2nd February 1945. Age 28. Son of William and Sarah Anne Foster; husband of Dorothy May Foster, of Chesham, Buckinghamshire. Buried in BRUNSSUM WAR CEMETERY, Limburg, Netherlands. Grave VI. 307. See also Leighton Buzzard and Beaudesert School