Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Major H. M. Foster, 1/4th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment (T.F.)

1914-15 Star (Capt. H.M. Foster. Hamps. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Major H. M. Foster.); Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., hallmarks for London ‘1919’, complete with brooch bar, mounted for wear, generally good very fine (4) £260-£300

Hugh Mathern Foster was born in Aldershot in 1886, the son of Sir William Edward Foster. He was educated at Wellington College, and was a Solicitor by profession. Foster resided at Ashe Grange, near Aldershot. He served during the Great War with the 1/4th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment in the Mesopotamian theatre of war from March 1915 (T.D. London Gazette 4 November 1919). Foster retired as a Major in February 1936. After the war he was employed as the Coroner for Aldershot Division of Hampshire in 1921, and served as Mayor of Aldershot in 1927-28 and 1928-29.

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