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The Roll lists his address as Medehampstead, London Road, and records that he was twice Mentioned in Dispatches and was awarded the Military Cross "for gallantry at Messines". It records the month and year he died, but not the day.
(CWGC records that Captain John Cecil Foster M.C. was serving in 6th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment when he died aged 23 on 20/8/1917m and indicate he had been Mentioned in Dispatches. He is buried in grave VII.F.1 at Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery in Belgium. They record that he was the son of Robert John Foster O.B.E. and E.G. Foster of The Haven, 15 Albany Road, St Leonard's, Sussex. They state that John also served in Gallipoli. John Cecil G Foster's birth was registered in Selby in 1894. On the 1911 census he was living with his parents at Portholme House in Selby. His address for Probate was Medhampstead, London Road, Peterborough; his father was executor).