Orders, Decorations and Medals

South Africa 1877-79, 1 clasp, 1879 (Bt. Major. C. E. Foster. 58th Foot.) good very fine £1000-1200

Charles Edward Foster was born on 1 September 1841 and was first commissioned as Ensign in the 58th Foot on 31 December 1858; Lieutenant, 23 November 1860; Captain, 29 March 1864; Major, 1 October 1877; Lieutenant-Colonel, 1 July 1881; Colonel, 1 July 1885; Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding 2nd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, April 1884 to July 1887; half-pay July 1886.

He served with the 58th Foot during the Zulu War of 1879 in the advance of Newdigate’s Division on Ulundi. He commanded the two companies which built Fort Evelyn, and the garrison of the Fort from June to the conclusion of the war (Medal with clasp).