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Personal info

Full name
FOOR, Herbert Lancelot
Date of birth
11 July 1925
Age
19
Place of birth
Fort Sumner, De Baca County, New Mexico
Hometown
Fort Sumner, De Baca County, New Mexico

Military service

Service number
38583220
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
Medical Aidman
Unit
314th Infantry Regiment,
79th Infantry Division,
Medical Detachment
Awards
Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
18 January 1945
Place of death
Near Soufflenheim, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
B 23 2

Immediate family

Members
Fred E. Foor (father)
Gussie M. (Dunn) Foor (mother)
Lawrence L. Foor (brother)

More information

T/5 Herbert L. Foor graduated from Fort Sumner High School and was a meat cutter.

He enlisted in Santa Fe, New Mexico on 8 October 1943.

He was killed by artillery shell fragments to his stomach.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov - WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Record / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men / New Mexico WWII Records / 1940 Census / U.S. WWII Hospital Admission Card, Combat History 314th Infantry Regiment, www.findagrave.com - Union48
Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Andy, New Mexico State Library, Santa Fe, www.newspapers.com - Clovis News Journal, 8 February 1945