53642: Photograph of William Ernest Foster

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posted on 2024-02-17, 23:54 authored by Great War Archive Project Team

Photograph of Pte. William (Billy) Ernest Foster

Editor's Comment:
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).
This photograph was taken while Pte. Foster was serving in the Machine Gun Corps, with the distinction 'MMG', signifying 'Motor Machine Guns', added below the ordinary Corps capbadge of crossed Vickers machine guns. The 'L' in wreath on the lower left sleeve denotes proficiency with the Lewis machine gun.

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Identifier

3756.jpg| GWA_2076_DSC06078.jpg|

Subject

Foster, William Ernest

Date

October 1915 - 1916

Date Created

01/10/1915

Temporal Coverage

31/12/1916

Source

Photograph

Medium

Photographic paper

Type

Photograph

Contributor

Richard Marshall | Richard Marshall | Helen Callister

Submission Event

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

Rights

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford

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Great War Archive World War One Norwich and Norfolk Millennium Library, 8th April 2008 Photographs

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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