Harry Hickwire Foster
- Category : 1902-births
- Type : ME
- Profile : 3/5 - Martyr / Heretic
- Definition : Split - Large
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Tension 1
Biography
Canadian Army officer who commanded two Canadian army divisions during World War II. He served in both the Pacific and European theatres.
After the war, Foster presided over the court martial of Canada’s top prisoner of war, SS General Kurt Meyer. The trial was a showcase for Canada, the first time that the country had conducted an international prosecution of this sort. Meyer was found guilty of three of five charges and sentenced to death. The sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment.
In 1959, he married his third wife Mona Leonhart (née Parsons), a Canadian spy for the Dutch Resistance during the Second World War.