Arthur Cedric Foster
Memorial panel, Church of All Saints, Brockhampton, Herefordshire, England
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To enshrine
the dear memory of
Arthur Cedric Foster
Grenadier Guards, younger son
of Arthur and Madeline
Foster who mortally
wounded at the battle
of Neuve Chapelle, died
in hospital at Merville
the day following.
March 12th 1915, aged 23.
"Ante diem periit. Sed
miles. Sed pro patria." |
The meaning of the latin words: "He who died so far from home, died before his time: but he was a soldier, and it was for his country he died." |
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Second Lieutenant
Second Lieutenant
26 April 1892, Caton Green, Lancashire
12 March 1915
23
1st Bn. Grenadier Guards
Busnes Communal Cemetery, France
Son of Lt. Col. Arthur W. Foster,
of Brockhampton Court, Hereford,
husband of Alice Madeline Foster. |
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De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour:
Foster, Arthur Cedric, 2nd Lieut., 1st Battn. Grenadier Guards, younger son of Capt. Arthur Wellesley Foster, of Brockhampton Court, co. Hereford, M. A., J. P., D. L., T. D., late Master of the South Herefordshire Foxhoundsa (now serving as Brigade Instructor of Musketry, attd. to the Staffordshire Infantry Brigade), by his wife, Alice Madeline, daughter of the late Eben Dyer Jordan, of Boston, USA; born Canton Green, co. Lancaster, 26 April 1891; educated at Remenham, Eton, and Exeter College, Oxford; entered the Diplomatic Service in February 1914, and was for some time Hon. Attaché to the British Legation at Stockholm. When the European War broke out he was home on leave, and obtaining his release from the Foreign Office volunteered and joined the Public Schools Battn., 18 September 1914, from which he was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant to the Grenadier Guards; 24 October following. He went to France, 12 January 1915; was wounded in action at Neuve Chapelle, 11 March 1915, and died in Merville Hospital the following day; unm. He was buried in Merville Churchyard. He was a good allround athlete, and at Eton won both the Junior and Senior Long Jump, the latter in 1909, when he created a record of 20 ft. 1 in. He also played frequently for the Hereford County Cricket Club. His brother, Lieutenant Cuthbert Foster, R. M. A., is (1916) on active service. |
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