Background
Born William Foster MacNeece on 21 August 1889 in Aldershot, Surrey, England, he was the eldest son of Colonel T. F. MacNeece Royal Army Medical Corps.
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Born William Foster MacNeece on 21 August 1889 in Aldershot, Surrey, England, he was the eldest son of Colonel T. F. MacNeece Royal Army Medical Corps.
He was educated at Cheltenham College, an independent school located in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Having attended the Royal Military College, Foster was commissioned on 6 February 1909 into The Queen"s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) as a second lieutenant.
He later became Lord Mayor of Oxford. He later assumed the surname of Foster by way of royal licence in 1927. He was promoted to lieutenant on 2 February 1912.
Having trained as a pilot, on 31 October 1913, he was awarded Royal Aeronautical Club (RAeC) Aviator Certificate number 671.
On 28 April 1914, he was transferred to the reserve of the Royal Flying Corps. With the outbreak of World War I, Foster would go on to serve in Europe.
In 1914, he was a pilot in Number. 3 Squadron Reconstruction Finance Corporation, conducting air reconnaissance over France.
He was a captain when, on 9 September 1915, he was appointed a flight commander in the Royal Flying Corps.
On 5 December 1916, as a temporary major, he was appointed wing commander and made a temporary lieutenant colonel. On 16 January 1919, he joined the Air Ministry as a Staff Officer, 1st Class. Foster became Air Officer Commanding Number.
1 Air Defence Group Royal Air Force in 1929 and Air Officer Commanding Number.
6 (Bomber) Group Royal Air Force in 1939. After World World War II, Foster settled in Oxford.
He died on 28 March 1978.
He served in World World War II in this role before becoming a member of the Combined Chiefs of Staff in 1942, Head of Inter-Service Liaison Committee in Washington Doctorate. C. in 1943 and Head of the Royal Air Force Training Mission in China in 1944.