Ernest Alfred FOSTER

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Service Number:	194
Enlisted:	15 October 1914, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
Last Rank:	Staff Sergeant
Last Unit:	2nd Veterinary Section: AIF
Born:	Tungamah, Victoria, Australia, 1880
Home Town:	Fitzroy, Yarra, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Horse Breaker
Died:	Subdural Haaemorrhage, Kew Mental Hospital, Victoria, 6 September 1968
Cemetery:	Fawkner Memorial Park Cemetery, Victoria Cremated on 10 September 1968 North side 4th Ave Wall Niches, Wall 1, Section P, Niche 187
Memorials:

15 Oct 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 194, 2nd Veterinary Section: AIF, Enlisted at Melbourne, Victoria
22 Dec 1914:	Involvement Sergeant, 194, 2nd Veterinary Section: AIF, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '24' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Borda embarkation_ship_number: A30 public_note: ''
22 Dec 1914:	Embarked Sergeant, 194, 2nd Veterinary Section: AIF, HMAT Borda, Melbourne
1 Jun 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Staff Sergeant, 2nd Veterinary Section: AIF, In France
25 Dec 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Staff Sergeant, 194, 2nd Veterinary Section: AIF, Discharged at the 3rd Military District

Son of William Foster and Mary Ann Foster nee Lancaster of 428 Rae Street, North Fitzroy, Victoria

Commnced return to Australia on 23 October 1918 on board HT Porrt Lyttleton disembarking on 29 November 1918

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

In December 1966 he was residing in Dorothy Street, Fawkner, Victoria

Previously serve in the Boer War