Notes for: Frederick FOSKETT

In 1881 living in parental home in Wendover
1891 Living in parental home at Clay Lane, Wendover
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1901 Warwick Prison
RG13/2929/83 Page 9
Frederick Foskett Prisoner S 22 General Labourer Aylesbury, BKM
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Enlisted in 25th Middlesex Regiment as a private (33597) 08 Nov 1915 aged 40yrs. Height 5ft 2in; girth 33.5/1.5; Eyes Brown, hair black, medium build. Address given as 1 Clay Lane and next of Kin Mother Annie Foskett. Joined at Tring. Occupation: General Labourer. Expeditionary Force to France in 1916. Discharged as no longer fit for war service- reason given: Congenital mentally defective and a degenerate not caused or aggravated by military service. A further note states:
He is a mental defective and a degenerate. He is stunted in build, the head is small, the ears have abnormally large lobes and the palate is high and narrow. He gives a very poor account of himself and his statements are contradictory and unreliable. He is childish, stupid and utterly irresponsible. The intellectual defect is as marked as the moral. He does not know where he is, or the day. date or year. He can neither read nor write.