Notes for: Harry FOSKETT
In 1891 living in parental home in Shipton, Winslow.
In 1901 Living with older brother William in Poulton cum Seacombe, Cheshire, with a relative of his mother's.
1901Poulton cum Seacombe, CHS
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Schedule 93 140 Wheatlaw Lane
Arthur A Warner H M 42 Mill Mechanic Engineer Winslow, BKM
Mary Warner W M 41 Sherrington, BKM
Arthur E Warner S S 20 Plumber Gas Fitter App Crewe
Elizabeth F Warner D S 18 Stoney Stratford, Bkm
William W Warner S S 17 Hawker/Green Grocer Durham, SDL
Sarah E Warner D S 14 Scotland
Maria E Warner D S 12 Scotland
Mary A Warner D S 6 Scotland
Edith A Warner D S 4 Seacombe
Emily J Warner D S 3 Seacombe
William Foskett Cousin S 16 Flour Warehouseman Winslow, Bkm
Henry Foskett Cousin S 14 Hawker, greengrocers rep Winslow, BKM
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The story is that Harry and his elder brother William returned home drunk one night after visiting Aylesbury. Their father chained them up in the pig sty and beat them; their cries could be heard all over the village. When he released them the next morning they ran across the fields to the station, boarded a train and "went north" and supposedly never returned to the village of his birth. However he is identifiable on a photograph of a funeral party taken outside of Winslow church in 1906. In 1901 he is found with his older brother living in the home of his mother's cousins in Poulton cum Seacombe, Cheshire, working as a greengrocers rep/hawker.
A Harry Foskett is serving on board the Royal Yacht "Victoria and Albert" 1903-1904 as an Assistant Storekeeper (a civilian post within the Royal Household). It is believed that this may have been the trigger for him joining the Royal Navy, as the Royal Yacht was normally stationed in Portsmouth, the home of the Royal Navy. It should be noted that in 1901 his brother William was a warehouseman, so it could be that Harry worked at the same occupation after the 1901 census giving him the necessary experience for this employment by the Royal Household.
He joined the Royal Navy in 1904. Served on Royal Yacht "Victoria and Albert" 1911-1914. Joined HMS Agincourt in 1914 and suffered from shell-shock at Battle of Jutland. Invalided out of RN in 1917 as Leading Stoker. However, on his discharge papers from the Royal Navy it is stated that he was suffering from early dementia, which today we would call "shell-shock" This may have been caused by the experience of being locked in to the stoke hold in the Battle of Jutland and suffering the juddering of the ship from Agincourt's massive 14 inch guns.
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1911 Hampshire
RG14 05590 0176 Royal Sailors Rest,
172-4 Commercial RD Rooms
Name Rel Age Stat Y-M Ch L D Occupation Industry E/w/o Home Birthplace
Harry FOSKETT - 28 Mar - - - - Stoker RN - - BKM-Winslow
His wife is listed as living with her parents in Southampton.
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Roll of the Great War
Section IV Southampton
FOSKETT H Chief Stoker, R.N
He volunteered in August 1914, and after his training was posted to HMS "Agincourt" which ship was engaged on important duties in the North Sea. He took part in the Battle of Jutland in June 1916, and suffered from shell shock. He was invalided to hospital, and afterwards discharged as medically unfit for further service in March 1917. He holds the 1914-1915 Star, and the General Service and Victory Medals.
65B, Shirley Park Avenue, Shirley, Southampton.
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He worked for a while after his war service at Vosper Thorneycroft's, Woolston, Southampton, as a plumber's mate.
He died in the Hampshire Lunatic Asylum of "General Paralisis of the Insane" in 1920 and is buried in Holybrook cemetery in Southampton. He is commemorated on the war memorials in Winslow, Bucks and the Southampton Cenotaph.
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ST LAWRENCES CHURCH
HIGH ST
WINSLOW
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
ENGLAND
SP 769 276
GOTHIC (?) CROSS WITH OCTAGONAL COLUMN AND PLINTH ON THREE STEPPED BASE
NORTH BUCKS TIMES 9 NOV 1920; BUCKINGHAM ADVERTISER 13 NOV 1920
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