Richard Foster (Royal Marines officer)

General Sir Richard Foster Carter Foster, KCB, CMG, DSO (27 January 1879 – 3 April 1965) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Adjutant-General Royal Marines and later as colonel of the East Surrey Regiment.

[2] The school specialised in preparing pupils for armed forces officer entrance examinations, particularly for the Royal Navy.

[4] In the next few years he held a number posts, including adjutant of the Royal Carmarthen Artillery (Militia) from 1905 to 1908.

[1] During the First World War Foster held a number of staff appointments, both at home and on the Western Front.

He became a temporary lieutenant colonel in September 1915,[5] serving as assistant adjutant and quartermaster general, 63rd (Royal Naval) Division until August 1918 and then assistant quartermaster general, 10th Army Corps until February 1919.