Foster, Ray J.

UNKNOWN - 1944

• Name	Foster, Ray J.
  Birth	UNKNOWN  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	FOST.R004
  _FGRAVE	56655115
  Military Service	World War II, Private First Class, 359th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division, United States Army  [2, 3]
  	Private First Class with 359th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division. Entered combat on June 8, 1944 and participated in the Normandy and Northern France Campaigns. Killed in action on November 12, 1944 in vicinity of Koenigsmaker, Moselle, France. Earned The Purple Heart and was otherwise eligible for The American Campaign Medal, The European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with two bronze battle stars and the WWII Victory Medal. Buried with honors at the Lorraine American Cemetery, St. Avold (Moselle), France. Honored also at the WWII Memorial in Flora, Illinois. (This information has been posted on the National World War II Memorial's Registry of Remembrances website by Robert Medley Gatewood. It is entered here with his permission.) Source: https://wwiiregistry.abmc.gov/honoree-plaque/?honoree_id=1899848
  		United States of America Flag, 48 Stars (1912-1959) In 1912, two stars were added to the United States flag, representing Arizona and New Mexico, bringing the total number of stars to 48. They were arranged in six rows of eight stars each. American fighting men would fight under this flag during four wars: World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the beginning of the Vietnam War. (In 1959,…
  		Ray J. Foster (?-1944)
  		United States Army
  		Private First Class, United States Army and United States Army Air Fores (Sep 1942-Aug 1948)
  		United States Army Enlisted Rank Insignia
  		Military Service Ribbons, Foster, Ray J. Contributed by Carl Wayne Gray
  		Purple Heart Medal, United States Military
  		Purple Heart Medal, United States Military
  		American Campaign Medal, United States Military
  		American Campaign Medal, United States
  		European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, United States
  		European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, United States
  		World War II Victory Medal, United States Military
  		World War II Victory Medal, United States Military
  		World War II (1939-1945)
  		90th Infantry Division ("Tough 'Ombres"), United States Army
  		90th Infantry Division ("Tough 'Ombres"), United States Army
  		Brochure, World War II Memorial, Flora, Illinois, Nov 11, 2007 On Veterans' Day, 2005, the city of Flora, Illinois dedicated a memorial to all known Clay County, Illinois World War II Veterans. Located on the south side of the city library, this is a copy of the brochure honoring that event. This 2007 brochure adds a matrix for locating the memorial brick that was laid in honor of each veteran. …
  		World War II Honoree, Foster, Ray J. (?-1944)
  		World War II Casualties, Clay County Illinois
  Death	12 Nov 1944	Koenigsmacker, Moselle, France   [1]
  	Cause: Killed in Action
  Burial	Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial, Saint-Avold, Departement de la Moselle, Lorraine, France   [1]
  	Plot C Row 28 Grave 88
  		Headstone, Foster, Ray J. (?-1944)
  		American Battle Monuments Commission - Lorraine American Cemetery The Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial in France covers 113.5 acres and contains the largest number of graves of our military dead of World War II in Europe, a total of 10,481. Their headstones are arranged in nine plots in a generally elliptical design extending over the beautiful rolling terrain of eastern Lorraine and culminating in a…
  		Headstone, Foster, Ray J.
  Person ID	I42988	Carl Wayne Gray Research
  Last Modified	15 May 2023

  
  

• Sources

  [S13324] https://www.findagrave.com/, Headstone, Foster, Ray J., (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56655115/ray-j-foster), none. (Reliability: 2). [S15404] Robert Medley Gatewood, Brochure, Flora, Illinois, World War II Veterans Memorial, page #4, (https://genealogy.carlwgray.com/showmedia.php?mediaID=18791) (Reliability: 2). [S14902] https://www.wwiimemorial.com/, World War II Honoree, Ray J. Foster, (https://wwiiregistry.abmc.gov/honoree-plaque/?honoree_id=1899848) (Reliability: 2).