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2018.221.000
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72nd BATTALION CEF, SH of C
72e BATAILLON CEF, SH de C
Photo Album of Captain Albert Percy Foster, 72nd Battalion, CEF
Album - (Honourary) Quartermaster Captain Albert Percy Foster, OBE, 72nd Battalion, CEF. PDF copy of album and service file attached to media.
It is in a black cardboard cover. The photos are to be catalogued individually.
CONFIRM & PRIORITY DUE TO PHOTOS
Captain Foster arrived in France with the 72nd Battalion as its Quartermaster on 13 August 1916. He was awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire and was Mentioned in Despatches on two occasions. He remained with the 72nd until the end of the war and returned to Canada with the troops on the SS Olympic.

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