About the Author
Brian Foster entered the Army Apprentices School at Harrogate in 1950 and graduated to the Royal Engineers in 1953. In his long army career, Brian served in wide variety of roles with the Royal Engineers. Much of his time was spent abroad, in Malaya, Singapore India and Nepal as well as West Germany, Gibraltar and the UK.
He took retirement from the army in 1974 after 24 years’ service and joined a firm of Civil & Structural Consulting Engineers in Leeds, becoming an associate Partner in 1976, and stayed with the firm for 25 years.
Parallel to this second career, he was granted a Territorial Army commission and served with the Royal Engineers (Volunteers) for 11.5 years. After some persuasion, he then transferred his commission to the Army Cadet Force (ACF) and served with them for over 13 years, retiring as Assistant Commandant, Yorkshire North and West (N&W) ACF at age of 65 years.
He then went on to work as a consultant to his previous consultancy practice for a further two years.
Brian married Dorothy in Taiping Garrison Church North Malaya, in 1961. They have a daughter, two sons, three granddaughters, two grandsons and a great granddaughter. Brian and Dorothy moved to Spain in 2001, but decided to return to the UK in 2014. They now live in Lincolnshire.
