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52727: Discharge Certificate of William Ernest Foster

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Pte. Foster was entitiled to one wound stripe and two blue overseas service chevrons (indicating he had been entered once in casualty lists, and served two years overseas after 1914). He enlisted in Mansfield on 16th February 1916, and was discharged on 11th April 1919 as medically unfit after being wounded in August, 1918.

Pte. 200816 William Ernest Foster, D Coy. Heavy Section, Machine Gun Corps (later D Bn. Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps and 4th Bn. Tank Corps), served originally in the Machine Gun Corps (Motors).

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Subject

Foster, William Ernest

Date

11th April 1919

Date Created

11/04/1919

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Leaf

Medium

Paper

Type

Official document

Contributor

Richard Marshall | Richard Marshall | Helen Callister

Submission Event

Norwich and Norfolk Millennium Library Submission Day, 8th April 2008

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The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford

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