FreeBMD (a useful quick UK geneaology search) corroborates TheAerosCo's finding of a birth in Watford in 1922, with a given mother's maiden name of 'Ghost' (!). No record of a UK death may also support a death later in Canada, of which, more below...
The IBCC website contains another image of Pete Foolkes (I can't post links yet, so apologies, you'll need to precede with the usual h t t p s : and cut-and-paste //ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/files/original/1309/18540/PWatsonC17010044.1.jpg (or search for "Decoration for Local Airman, Three Airmen and a Wrecked Lancaster").
Finally the IBCC Facebook page contains a post showing a Christmas 1944 menu, apparently signed by Pete Foolkes, and Peter Allam comments "This menu was owned by W/O Peter Foolkes, Mid-Upper gunner in S/L 'Ches' Chester's Balderton-based 227 Squadron crew. As mentioned on the menu, fellow 227 crew skippered by New Zealander F/O Merv Croker had a close call at Wick on their return from Politz on December 22nd 1944. After being holed by Danish flak on the outbound leg and having an abortive first run over the target, 10 1/2 hours later they were lost and on their last drops of fuel when Wick heard their Mayday call. A rough landing ended with their Lanc (PB649 9J-K) badly damaged and perched on top of the torpedo dump. Thanks to thick fog, both Croker's crew and Chester's crew (which had flown up from Milltown to collect them) were obliged to spend Christmas at Wick, hence the menu. Both crews survived their tours and the war, but the incident was the end for PB649 and she was dismantled on site. Post-war Pete Foolkes emigrated to Canada and after service in the RCAF he retired to the Comox valley on Vancouver Island where he died in 2007. This is a rather forlorn looking PB649 gracing Wick's torpedo dump, photographed later in the day on December 22nd."
Hope that's of help PTS47 - as Teeteringhead says, these topics do bring out the (often needed) very best of PPrune and this one has inspired me to finally join after many years of 'lurking'.....