Bernard Andrew Foyster

A Sapper with 573 Army Field Company, Bernard died on 18th of December 1942 aged 26. 

Bernard was born at Kessingland on 21 January 1916, a son of Bernard William and May Florence Foyster. He was baptised at Saint Edmund’s Church, Kessingland, on 5 March 1916 and his family lived at Alma Cottages. In 1921 they lived at 2 Hadley Cottages, Kessingland. By 1939 Bernard’s family were living at 5 Hope Terrace, Kessingland, and Bernard was a pipe fitter. 

Bernard enlisted in the Royal Engineers, at Birmingham, on 29 August 1940. Bernard arrived at Suez on 30 March 1942, and he joined 573 Army Field Company on 13 April 1942.

Bernard was reported missing, in the Western Desert, on 2 June 1942, but later evidence shows that he was captured at Tobruk on 27 May 1942. By July 1942 he was at a prisoner of war camp in Italy. Bernard died at Altamora Hospital, Bari, and buried at Altamora Cemetery. In 1944 he was reburied at Bari War Cemetery.