Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 30154, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30154/supplements/6382. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- No. 13290 Corporal Edward Foster, East Surrey Regiment. For most conspicuous bravery and initiative. On 24th April 1917 at Villers Plouich, France, during an attack the advance was held up in a portion of a village by two enemy machine-guns, which were entrenched and strongly covered by wire entanglements. Corporal Foster, who was in charge of two Lewis guns, succeeded in entering the trench and engaged the enemy guns. One of the Lewis guns was lost, but Corporal Foster, with reckless courage, rushed forward and bombed the enemy, thereby recovering the gun. Then getting his two guns into action, he killed the enemy gun team and captured their guns, thereby enabling the advance to continue successfully. MEDAILLE MILITAIRE,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30184/supplements/7098. GAZETTE ISSUE 30184, MEDAILLE MILITAIRE, His Majesty the King has given unrestricted permission to wear the Medaille Militaire, awarded by the President of the French Republic, for distinguished service rendered during the course of the campaign.
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Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE 30154, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30154/supplements/6382. His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned:- No. 13290 Corporal Edward Foster, East Surrey Regiment. For most conspicuous bravery and initiative. On 24th April 1917 at Villers Plouich, France, during an attack the advance was held up in a portion of a village by two enemy machine-guns, which were entrenched and strongly covered by wire entanglements. Corporal Foster, who was in charge of two Lewis guns, succeeded in entering the trench and engaged the enemy guns. One of the Lewis guns was lost, but Corporal Foster, with reckless courage, rushed forward and bombed the enemy, thereby recovering the gun. Then getting his two guns into action, he killed the enemy gun team and captured their guns, thereby enabling the advance to continue successfully. MEDAILLE MILITAIRE,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30184/supplements/7098. GAZETTE ISSUE 30184, MEDAILLE MILITAIRE, His Majesty the King has given unrestricted permission to wear the Medaille Militaire, awarded by the President of the French Republic, for distinguished service rendered during the course of the campaign.