Name
Leonard Foster
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/04/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
95702
Royal Field Artillery
'A' Battery, 93rd Army Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LA TARGETTE BRITISH CEMETERY, NEUVILLE-ST. VAAST
111.D.21
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the West Hyde memorials
Pre War
Born 1892 in Kingston, Surrey, Leonard appears to be the illegitimate son of Charlotte Brewer. In 1891 she was age 33, a Widow and a Laundress, living Kingston Road, Kingston with her children William 6 and Annie 0, and a nephew Augustus Delapirreage 12. Her marriage has not been traced with any certainty.
In 1893 Charlotte married Samuel Foster, presumably Leonard’s father. Samuel died in 1898 aged 35. The 1901 census has Leonard age 9 living Bayley’s Cottage 1, New Malden, Surrey, with his mother (living on own means), his sister Louise 7, his half brother William Brewer 16, and a visitor Kate E Mack 22. Charlotte married Thomas William Evans aged 57 at Norbiton St Peter’s, Surrey on the 13th of March 1910. The 1911 census has Leonard age 18, a Nurseryman Carter, boarding with his half brother William Brewer and his family at 19 Berresford Road, New Malden.
Leonard’s CWGC entry states him to be the son of Charlotte Evans of Royal Oak, West Hyde, Rickmansworth and the late Samuel Foster of New Malden, Surrey. No other connection to the Rickmansworth area is known. Charlotte is thought to have died in 1934 in Surrey.
Wartime Service
Originally under the command of 20th (Light) Division the 93rd was redesignated as a an Army Brigade on the 8th of January 1917.
The circumstances of Leonard’s death have not yet been established.
Additional Information
Identified via CWGC. However, this address was given after Leonard's death, so it is possible that he had no direct connection to this location.
Acknowledgments
Mike Collins
