Ellwood Gordon Foster

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

772900

Unit at enlistment:

125th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Cemetery:

Farringdon Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario

Commemorated at:

Immanuel Baptist Church

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Brantford, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

24 Foster Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

24 Foster Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Trucker

Employer:

Massey-Harris Co.

Religious denominations:

Baptist

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

BX February 6, 1917

Dangerously Ill

Word was received in the city this morning that Private Ellwood Gordon Foster of the 125th Battalion was dangerously ill. The report received stated that he was ill with pneumonia.

BX February 26, 1917

Is Recovering

Mrs. William Foster, Foster Street, yesterday received a letter from a nurse in the isolation hospital in France where her son, Private Ellwood Gordon Foster, has been confined for some weeks with diphtheria, stating that he was doing well and was on the road to recovery. Pte. Foster was with the 125th Battalion when he left Canada and was drafted to France. He was taken from the trenches on February 4 with an attack of diphtheria. His many friends will indeed be glad to know that he is recovering.

BX September 27, 1918

Cheery News

Mr. and Mrs. William Foster, 24 Foster Street, have received a letter dated September 3 from their son Private Ellwood Gordon Foster who was wounded on August 30. He sends the cheery news that the bullet was taken out of his hip and that he is getting on fine. He expected to be removed to the base hospital the day he wrote, but his temperature had gone up. He hopes to go to “Blighty” soon.

BX March 25, 1972

FOSTER, Elwood Gordon – Suddenly in Florida, Friday, March 24, 1972, Elwood Gordon foster in his 74th year, of 117 Superior Street (veteran of World War 1 and former employee of Cockshutt Farm Equipment); beloved husband of Lillian Edna Levitt; dear father of Bud, Lloyd, Mrs. G. (Beverly) Knibbs and Charles, all of Brantford and predeceased by one daughter, Edna; also survived by 17 grandchildren. Resting at the McCleister Funeral Home Ltd., 30 Brant Avenue, from Tuesday afternoon, service in the chapel, Wednesday, 2 p.m. Interment in the Farringdon Burial Ground. Rev. A. Hirtle of Immanuel Baptist Church officiating.