Charles Leslie Foster – Killed in Action 23.05.1944
Flight Sergeant [Air Gunner] 624078.
100 Squadron, Royal Air Force.
Killed in action 23.05.1944, aged 24.
Buried in Schoonselhof Cemetery, Antwerp, Belgium, Plot 4A Row E Grave 8.
Son of Charlie and Emma Jane Foster of Lower Heyford.
Northampton Mercury & Herald 13.04.1945 [Photograph].
“Presumed Killed. News that their youngest son, Flight Sergt. Leslie Foster, R.A.F. reported missing in May of last year, is now presumed to have been killed, has been received by Mr. and Mrs. C. Foster, Stonebank, Lower Heyford. Sergt. Foster, who was 24, joined the R.A.F. in October, 1938, and had been in many flights over Germany when he was reported missing. He had seen service in North Africa. He was a former pupil of Lower Heyford School and was employed by the Miller Last Co. Ltd., before joining the R.A.F. He was also a former member of Bugbrooke Boys‘ Brigade.”
Heyford & Stowe Roll of Honour – Celia & Brian Caucutt – 1993
Remembered by: Caroline Elliott: “He was my Dad’s cousin, Charlie Foster of Hillside Road, Nether Heyford”
Updated Jez Wilson 2020
The Nether Heyford Prattler 