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Discharge Certificate of William Ernest Foster

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SubjectFoster, William Ernest
TitleDischarge Certificate of William Ernest Foster
NotesPte. 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).
Item Date11th April 1919
Creation placeEngland
File typeImage
Item sourceLeaf
Item mediumPaper
ContentOfficial document
CataloguerRichard Marshall
FilenameGWA_2154_DSC06095.jpg
CopyrightThe Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
Digital repositoryThe Great War Archive, University of Oxford
Contributor NameRichard Marshall (Norwich and Norfolk Millennium Library Submission Day 8th April 2008)
Contributed on the behalf ofHelen Callister
Reference URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/item/3804