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Lieutenant WILLIAM ALAN FOSTER

Service Number: 314199
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Border Regiment

Date of Death

Died 14 February 1945

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MIERLO WAR CEMETERY

VIII. F. 6.

Netherlands

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 5th Bn. Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Mary Ellen Foster; husband of Dulcie May Foster, of Heaton Park, Prestwich, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS TODAY FOR OUR TOMORROW
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Buried or commemorated at

MIERLO WAR CEMETERY
Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Number of casualties: 666
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