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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 95

Victory Medal 1914-19 (Major B. N. Foster.), very fine

Bertram Noel Foster was born on 1 January 1873 at Greatham Rectory, Petersfield, Hampshire, the son of Joseph Foster and his wife Laetitia. As a young boy he resided at Liscard, Cheshire, before being commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the South Staffordshire Regiment, on 4 March 1891. He subsequently moved to St. Andrew, Guernsey, setting up in business as a fruit grower with his brother Percival Lloyd Foster, before moving to the east coast of the island and residing at Le Chalet, Fermain Bay. Appointed Captain, later Major with the Army Service Corps during the Great War, he served in Egypt from 15 September 1918 and died on 24 January 1922 at 4 Dorset Square, London; sold with copied MIC and research.

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