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FOSTER, JOHN ASKIN

Major John Askin Foster was a lieutenant in the 92nd Infantry, and joined the 12th Battalion A.I.F., when it was formed at Brighton camp. He left as a second-lieutenant. He was present at the landing in Gallipoli, where he was wounded, and at Pozieres and Bullecourt, where he was again wounded in each engagement. He was an old scholar of the Launceston Grammar School and Hutchins School, Hobart. He is a brother of Lieutenant Francis Foster, late adjutant of Claremont camp, who is now at the front, and his father is Major Henry Foster, of the 92nd Infantry, who was major and second in command of the 20th Battalion, A.I.F., and fought on Gallipoli.

A stained-glass window, which is to be placed in the Church of St. Luke Campbell Town, as a memorial to the late Major John Askin Foster, of the 12th Battalion, A.I.F., is being exhibited in a well-known London gallery this week, and has aroused considerable interest and admiration among Australian circles In London. The artist is Sir Arild Rosenkrants whose fine work is in many English churches up and down the country, and who has already made a stained-glass window for St. Luke's, Campbell Town.

The window bears the following inscription at the base:

Major Henry Foster of Merton Vale Campbell Town has received word from the Defence Department that his son, Major John A. Foster, was killed in action in France on August 25. The deceased left Tasmania with the first contingent, four years ago, as a lieutenant, and for his bravery and sterling qualities as a soldier earned promotion to the rank of major in the Australian forces. He had been wounded on three previous occasions receiving a severe wound in the forearm at the landing of Gallipoli and on two other occasions in France. Major Henry Foster, father of the deceased, also saw service on Gallipoli, and his eldest son, Lieutenant Francis Foster, is at present serving with the Australian Army on the Western front. It is understood that Major John A. Foster had the opportunity to take six months' furlough but refused to accept it stating his intention to stick it out till the last.

The Mercury 6^th September 1918

                                                                                                                                                                                       Right – Major Foster, John Askin 

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