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Personal info

Full name
FOUST, Marion
Date of birth
23 November 1920
Age
24
Place of birth
Crawford County, Ohio
Hometown
Galion, Crawford County, Ohio
Ethnicity
White

Military service

Service number
35089028
Rank
Private
Function
unknown
Unit
13th Infantry Regiment,
8th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
23 December 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Zerkall, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
A 20 22

Immediate family

Members
Elsworth Foust (father)
Nettie I. (Kennedy) Foust (mother)
Willis I. Foust (brother)
Blanche I. Foust (sister)
Floyd Foust (brother)
Inez Foust (sister)
Edan Foust (sister)
Loyd Foust (brother)
Beatrice Foust (wife)
Leslie Foust (son)

More information

Pvt Marion Foust was employed at the Galion Metallic Vault Co and Curtiss-Wright Co.

Pvt Marion Foust enlisted at Fort Thomas, Kentucky on 5 June 1944.

Source of information: André Koch, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1910/1930 Census, www.findagrave.com - Kat, Galion Inquirer - 5 January 1945

Photo source: Winand Schrooten, www.ancestry.com - World War II, Young American Patriots, 1941-1945

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