Colonial Despatches

Thomas Foster, a member of the British Army's Royal Engineers, was awarded the Brevet rank of Major for his service in Canada during the rebellions of 1837 and 1838.1 He was appointed Deputy Inspector-General of Fortifications in the War Office on 31 August 1860 and held the post until it was abolished in 1862.2 Foster was promoted to full General on 8 June 1871.3 He died in London on 28 August 1872.4

• 1. H. G. Hart, The New Annual Army List [1872] (London: John Murray, 1872), 224. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t7br9c69d
• 2. The Royal Kalendar [1862] (London: R. & A. Suttaby, 1862), 287. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t19m3rj3x; Whitworth Porter, History of the Corps of Royal Engineers [vol. 2] (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1889), 96. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t7fr99q4t
• 3. H. G. Hart, The New Annual Army List [1872] (London: John Murray, 1872), 4. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t7br9c69d
• 4. R. F. Edwards, ed., Roll of Officers of the Corps of Royal Engineers from 1660 to 1898 (Chatham: Royal Engineers Institute, 1898), 22. http://n2t.net/ark:/13960/t3jx7sw4n