Notes for: George Ernest FOSKETT

1891 Living in parental home in Stanwick, Nth.
1901 Living in Stanwick, Nhants with Parents and siblings.
29 Jun 1915: Enrolled in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, unmarried, with current military service in the 11th IF of C. Height 5ft 5.25ins, chest 39.5ins, dark complexion, brown eyes and clack hair. Four vaccination marks on left arm; scar on right hip; operation scar left groin.
Corporal, 47th Bn, Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regt.). Commemorated Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Commemorated on Foskett Lake, Canada
Times: Saturday Dec 15th 1917
Deaths: British Columbian Regt Corp G E Foskett 628614
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From www.stanwickwarmemorial.co.uk
George Ernest FOSKETT, 628614, Corporal,
47th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (West Ontario Regiment),
10 Brigade 4 Canadian Division.

Baptised: 27 November 1887,
Enlisted in 1914, Went Overseas in 1915,
Next of Kin: Parents - Joseph & Mary Foskett, Harris, Saskatchewan.
He was brother to Corporal Charles Foskett , 1st Battalion, DCLI.

Formerly a resident of Stanwick who emigrated to Canada with his family in 1907. His father was a carpenter who built and lived in the house in 18, Raunds Road, Stanwick, before the whole family emigrated. Prior to enlisting in 1914 it would appear that he worked with his father in the building trade and it is said he worked on the construction of the Masonic Temple in Saskatoon.

He stayed in Stanwick with his aunt, Mrs Clarke, at “Rose Cottage”, Grange Road, when he was on leave from France.

Died: 26 October 1917, aged 30 at Passchendaele.
Named on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Panels 10-26-28.

Corporal Foskett’s battalion was involved in much of the heavy fighting in 1916/17 including the Battle of Ancre Heights on the Somme (October-November 1916), Vimy Ridge (April-May 1917) and finally Passchendaele (July-October 1917). He was killed, almost certainly, on the first day of the Second Battle of Passchendaele when his battalion was attacking in a north easterly direction from Tyne Cot towards Crest Farm and the village of Passchendaele.