Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sapper H. I. Foster, Royal Engineers, who was captured and taken Prisoner of War on the opening day of the Battle of Le Cateau, 26 August 1914, after just 10 days in France

1914 Star (14619 Sapr: H. I. Foster. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (14619 Spr. H. I. Foster. R.E.) good very fine (3) £160-£200

Harold Ingram Foster was born in Yorkshire in 1887 and worked pre-War as a Postal Clerk in Heworth. Married to Margaret Kate West in 1912, he proceeded to France on 16 August 1914 as a Sapper with No. 3 Signal Company, Royal Engineers, and was captured and taken Prisoner of War at Python on the opening day of the Battle of Le Cateau on 26 August 1914. He spent almost the entirely of the Great War as a Prisoner of the Germans; Red Cross Records confirm his incarceration at Minden camp and the address of his wife as ‘Farm House, Harlington, Yorks.’