Studio portrait of 6317 Private (Pte) Valentine Horace Foster, 21st Battalion. A water bailiff ...

Accession Number H06638
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Studio portrait of 6317 Private (Pte) Valentine Horace Foster, 21st Battalion. A water bailiff from Nyah, Vic prior to enlistment, Pte Foster embarked with the 18th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Hororata on 23 November 1916. On 4 October he was killed in action in Belgium, aged 28 and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.