In Memory of

16 Sergeant A B FOSTER

48th Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

who died

on 11 April 1917

Remembered with honour

BEAULENCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY, LIGNY-THILLOY

FRANCE

Alfred Burkie Foster was a Great Uncle of  Quentin Williams in Western Australia

Roll of Honour in the Needilup Hall. Needilup is wheatbelt country 320 miles South-West of Perth Western Australia.

Not good odds in World War 1 - 11 out of 22 volunteers from Needilup were killed in the war. These casualty rates devastated country areas of Australia, recovery was slow and country population levels never recovered.

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