Frederick Charles Foster was born in Luton in 1887.

In 1901 he his living with his large family at numbers 66 & 68 John Street, the family bakery. His father Charles is head of the family & is living at number 68 with his mother Marion & brothers Herbert 12, Arthur 9 & 2 year old Thomas. At the shop next door, number 66, 14 year old Frederick is living with his widowed grandmother Mary Foster, his aunt Edith 27, a straw hat machinist, aunt Esther 20, a domestic help, 1 year old cousin Leslie & boarders, Clifford & Edith Campbell who are actors.

In 1909 Frederick marries Annie Hickinbotham.

In the 1911 census, Frederick & Annie have a 10 month old son Frederick Harold & are living at 55 Park Road West. Frederick is working as a baker's assistant. His boarder, David Reed 23, is also a baker's assistant. Their other boarder, Annie Castel Taylor is 25 & working as a shorthand typist at a engineering company.

Their daughter Phylis was born in 1913, but sadly died in 1918.

In 1916 Frederick received his papers & joined the Royal Flying Corps, later called the Royal Air Force. He joined the No 101 Squadron which was formed in Farnborough in 1917. He is listed on the 1918 RAF Muster Roll as his trade of Motor Cyclist. The squadron was sent to the Western Front in August 1917. It's main task was to carry out night bombings in an Fe2b Aircraft on German railheads, where military supplies are loaded & airfields. The Squadron flew during the battles in Ypres in 1917 & on the Somme in 1918. Their final attacks were made on the Hindenburg Line. In March 1919 the Squadron returned to England & disbanded in December of that year.

Although no service record can be found for Frederick, it would seem that he returned to England before March 1919, as he sadly died on 24th February at Wardown Military Hospital & is buried in Crawley Green Cemetery.