Private James Herbert Foster

Service number VX63764
Birth Date 1922-03-25
Birth Place Australia: Victoria, Horsham
Death Date 2016-10-03
Death Place Australia: Queensland, North Queensland, Townsville
Final Rank Private
Service Australian Army
Unit 2/29th Australian Infantry Battalion
Places
Conflict/Operation Second World War, 1939-1945
Description

Private James Herbert Foster enlisted to the Second Australian Imperial Force on 22 September 1941. He served with 2/29 Australian Infantry Battalion in Malaya, but was taken as a prisoner of war by the Japanese in February 1942. Private Foster spent the remainder of the war as a prisoner, and returned to Australia in September 1945. He was discharged on 27 November 1945.

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Date of birth 25 March 1922
Date of enlistment 22 September 1941
Date of discharge 27 November 1945
Date of death 03 October 2016