Notes for: Edward FOSKETT

Living with parents and siblings in home of grandfather David Adams in 1891.
1901 Living in Camberwell with parents and siblings. (name mistranscribed in index as Fiskert)
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All Saints, North Peckham
Marriages
25 Dec 1913 Edward Foskett, 23, b, baker, 38 Cator St, Thomas Foskett, Moulder
Ethel Allen, 22, sp, 38 Cator St, Frederick Allen, Engineer
Wit: Henry Thomas Foskett and Alice Mabel Foskett
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Enlisted at Camberwell SE. Driver 6254 "B" Bty. 156th Bde., Royal Field Artillery.
Widow living at 21 Geldart Rd, Peckham, London.
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Witness to wedding of brother Henry Thomas Foskett in 1917.
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Roll of the Great War:
FOSKETT E, Driver, RFA
Volunteering in March 1915, he was drafted to France later in the same year, and did good work as a driver for his Battery in many sectors. He served on the Somme, and at Arras and Ypres, and on October 23rd, 1918 was killed in action in the fierce fighting at Le Cateau during the Advance of that year. He was entitled to the 1914-15 Star, and the General Service and Victory Medals.
"A costly sacrifice upon the altar of freedom"
21 Geldart Road, Peckham, S.E.15