Harry Fogel (served as Harry Foster)

Private, Pioneer Corps
Service no: 13051610
Died 11 Aug 1943
Buried Cheltenham Hebrew Congregation Cemetery, United Kingdom
Age 18


Harry was born in 1925 in Poland. Little is known about his life before he came to England. Please contact us if you have any further information.

Harry enlisted into the Pioneer Corps and was stationed at a depot in the West Country. On a day off Harry and another refugee soldier Martin Laughton (Lobl) hired a canoe on the River Avon at Tewkesbury. Their canoe capsized and they were heard shouting for help, and despite a rescue being attempted both of them drowned.

They are both buried Cheltenham Hebrew Congregation Cemetery, United Kingdom.