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<blockquote data-quote="Craig Robertson" data-source="post: 61191" data-attributes="member: 6852"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Foley</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>John Joseph</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1st Ranger Battalion (Company D)</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Corporal</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>31017758</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Bronze Star</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Europe</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 25.03.1917, Boston, Massachusetts, USA</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>father Thomas Frederick Foley (1880-1956)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>mother Julia Ann (nee Shea) Foley (1880-1953)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>grammar school education</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>2 years high school</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>father and 4 brothers served WWII</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>single without dependents upon enlistment</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>16.10.1940 draft card, Suffolk, Massachusetts</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>25.02.1941 entered service Boston, Massachusetts</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><em>assigned to the 209th Coast Artillery Regiment(Anti-Aircraft)</em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><em>06.1942 volunteered Ranger Battalion</em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>one of the Originals</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>11.1942 op.Torch</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>John participated in all 1st Rangers Bn operations except Cisterna as ill with Malaria</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>04.1944 transferred 4th Ranger Bn (Sergeant) (when 1st/3rd Ranger Bn's disbanded)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>06.1944 hospitalized due Malaria</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>16.11.1944 discharged</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1951 married Matilda M. (nee Cote) Culleton (1903-1984)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>3 step children</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>resided West Roxbury, Massachusetts</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>employed as landscaper</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 26.11.1962 (Aged 45) Mansfield, Massachusetts</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Mount Hope Cemetery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/j-foley.37590/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/37/37590-a663a0f7dd93a40147782a28d3039da3.jpg?1663262336" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a> <a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/j-foley-grave.37591/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/37/37591-5b73c8fa2c43b6fc969ce81ef1eaa39d.jpg?1663263709" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
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