Notes for: Edward FOSKETT
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)
Enlisted at Camberwell SE. Driver 6254 "B" Bty. 156th Bde., Royal Field Artillery. Widow living at 21 Geldart Rd, Pckham, London.
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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