From SAS to Blood Diamond Wars
By Hamish Ross, Fred Marafono

Craig Robertson

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  • SURNAME
Foley
  • FORENAME
John Joseph
  • UNIT
1st Ranger Battalion (Company D)
  • RANK
Corporal
  • NUMBER
31017758
  • AWARD
Bronze Star
  • PLACE
Europe
  • ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
born 25.03.1917, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
father Thomas Frederick Foley (1880-1956)
mother Julia Ann (nee Shea) Foley (1880-1953)
grammar school education
2 years high school
father and 4 brothers served WWII
single without dependents upon enlistment
16.10.1940 draft card, Suffolk, Massachusetts
25.02.1941 entered service Boston, Massachusetts
assigned to the 209th Coast Artillery Regiment(Anti-Aircraft)
06.1942 volunteered Ranger Battalion
one of the Originals
11.1942 op.Torch
John participated in all 1st Rangers Bn operations except Cisterna as ill with Malaria
04.1944 transferred 4th Ranger Bn (Sergeant) (when 1st/3rd Ranger Bn's disbanded)
06.1944 hospitalized due Malaria
16.11.1944 discharged
1951 married Matilda M. (nee Cote) Culleton (1903-1984)
3 step children
resided West Roxbury, Massachusetts
employed as landscaper
died 26.11.1962 (Aged 45) Mansfield, Massachusetts
Mount Hope Cemetery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
 
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