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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 424

British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. N. R. Foster), good very fine

Norman Roe Foster was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Cheshire Regiment in November 1914 and landed at 'C' Beach, Suvla Bay, Gallipoli with the 1/7th Battalion in August 1915; just two days later, the unit suffered around 380 casualties at Scimitar Hill.

Subsequently employed in the Egypt and Palestine operations, Foster was killed in action at the First Battle of Gaza on 26 March 1917, when the Battalion was sent to reinforce the heavily engaged 1/5th Welsh Regiment before Ali el Muntar.

Aged 26, he was the son of Harry and Mary Jane Foster of Glenton House, Neston, Cheshire, and is buried in Gaza War Cemetery.


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