Name
Stanley Francis Foster
10 February 1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/08/1917
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
33276
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DERRY HOUSE CEMETERY NO.2
I. D. 2.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
VICTORIOUS HIS FALL HE ROSE AS HE FELL WITH JESUS IN GLORY TO DWELL
UK & Other Memorials
Tring Town Memorial, St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Tring, Berkhamsted Town Memorial,
Pre War
Stanley Francis Prior Foster was born in Tring on 10 February 1886, the son and eldest child of Josiah William (known as William) and Caroline Foster (nee Prior), and was baptised on 27 September 1892 at Tring, aged 6. He was one of eight children.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at 13 Harrow Yard, Tring, where his father was working as an agricultural labourer. They had moved to 88 Akeman Street, Tring in 1901 at which time Stanley was working as a labourer on a farm. He has not been found on the 1911 Census, but his family remained in Tring.
He married Alice Maud Ward on 1 June 1914 in Berkhamsted. They do not appear to have had any children. Prior to enlistment he was working for John Gower & Son, Contractors.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bedford and joined the Bedfordshire Regiment, serving with the 6th Battalion.
He was killed in action on 6 August 1917 when the Battalion were at Rossignol Wood., Hebuterne, south of Arras and is buried in Derry House Cemetery No. 2, France.
Additional Information
His widow Alice received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing totalling £3 10s 3d. She also appears to have received a pension although the amount is unknown. His mother is also named on the pension card, living at 4 Council Cottages, New Mill, Tring.
Alice remarried in 1927 to Frank Stratford and lived at Pin Cottage, Angle Race, Berkhampstead.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.bedfordregiment.org.uk
