An Excellent "Old Contemptible's"
VERY LATE (Battle of The Sambre)
MILITARY MEDAL & 1914 Star & Bar Trio with GV Special Constabulary Medal.

To:
19255. Pte H.L. FOSTER. R.A.M.C.



[HISTORY]
Pte Harold Foster who was from Hendon, North London, arrived in France on 22nd August 1914 just one day before the first shots of WW1 were fired in anger. Although he later served at 10th General Hospital at St Nazaire and maybe later when the 10th G.H. moved to Rouen, it is almost certain that he was involved with the support and evacuation of some of the earliest casualties of the war during the Mons Retreat. The 10th General hospital wasn't set up until mid-September 1914 and in the interim period very many R.A.M.C. personnel who basically hit the battlefields running from 23rd August were employed in the retreating front line giving assistance to the early wounded.

[4th NOVEMBER 1918] "Battle of The Sambre"
Toward the very end of the war many of the staff who had been previously employed in the base and general hospitals were transferred back out into the field units to assist with the casualties being suffered in the final big push of the war which commenced at the Battle of the Sambre on 4th November 1918.

It was clearly in this very late period and during the final seven days of the war that Sgt Harold Leo Foster undertook the act of bravery which led to his award of the Military Medal. As a non-combatant medic it's almost certain that his act of gallantry was based on rescuing casualties from the battlefield under heavy enemy fire which was normally the reason for such awards to the RAMC. Several other medical men received the Victoria Cross for such actions.







An Excellent "Old Contemptible's Group with additional Special Constabulary Police service.
The MM is practically 'mint' (with superb tone) others EF

One of the very last MM's of the Great War.

£795