George Foster

Private George Joseph Foster (Forstein) was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born c. 1895, in Whitechapel, the son of Russian-born parents Harris, a traveller and agent, and Sarah Forstein. At the time of the 1911 census, the younger Forstein was apprenticing as a barber while living with his family at 69 Eric Street.
Foster died on 24 August 1914, in the "Action of Elouges", while serving with the 1st Battalion, The Norfolk Regiment. He had arrived in France only a week before his death.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Foster, George Joseph, cwgc.org. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
Category:Birth Date Unknown
Category:1914 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:British people of Russian descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial
Category:Privates