Orville L. Foster
First Sergeant, U.S. Army
Service # 37157105
36th Engineer Combat Regiment
Entered the Service from: Kansas
Died: 30-Dec-44
Buried at: Plot E Row 25 Grave 38
Lorraine American Cemetery
St. Avold, France
Awards: Purple Heart
BAXTER SPRINGS MAN
KILLED IN FRANCE
Sergeant Orville Foster, Previously
Reported Missing, Slain
December 30.
Baxter Springs, Kan., May 1.— Mrs. Helen Foster was advised by the war department today that her husband, Sergeant Orville (Slats) Foster, 27 years old, was killed in action in France December 30, and that a letter of confirmation would follow.
A wire had been received January 16 saying Sergeant Foster had been reported missing in action since December 30.
Sergeant Foster was born in Galena and was raised in the Tri-State district. He attended high school in Miami and Riverton and graduated at Riverton in 1936 (sic) [1937]. He was married November 29, 1941, to Miss Helen Payne of Baxter Springs.
Prior to entering the service, he was employed by the Price Motor Company.
Foster entered the service in April, 1942, and took most of his basic training at Camp Roberts, Calif., and Camp Edwards, Mass. He was sent overseas in October, 1942.
He participated in the battle of Casablanca in the North African campaign, in the Sicilian campaign, spent three months on the Anzio beachhead and was in two campaigns in Italy and one in France.
He was in the amphibian engineers until he was transferred in September, 1944, to the combat engineers.
Besides his wife, he is survived by a daughter Dianna; his mother, Mrs. J. L. Scott of Eugene, Ore., and his grandmother, Mrs. George Bishop, 1037 Lincoln, Baxter Springs.
First Sergeant, U.S. Army
Service # 37157105
36th Engineer Combat Regiment
Entered the Service from: Kansas
Died: 30-Dec-44
Buried at: Plot E Row 25 Grave 38
Lorraine American Cemetery
St. Avold, France
Awards: Purple Heart
BAXTER SPRINGS MAN
KILLED IN FRANCE
Sergeant Orville Foster, Previously
Reported Missing, Slain
December 30.
Baxter Springs, Kan., May 1.— Mrs. Helen Foster was advised by the war department today that her husband, Sergeant Orville (Slats) Foster, 27 years old, was killed in action in France December 30, and that a letter of confirmation would follow.
A wire had been received January 16 saying Sergeant Foster had been reported missing in action since December 30.
Sergeant Foster was born in Galena and was raised in the Tri-State district. He attended high school in Miami and Riverton and graduated at Riverton in 1936 (sic) [1937]. He was married November 29, 1941, to Miss Helen Payne of Baxter Springs.
Prior to entering the service, he was employed by the Price Motor Company.
Foster entered the service in April, 1942, and took most of his basic training at Camp Roberts, Calif., and Camp Edwards, Mass. He was sent overseas in October, 1942.
He participated in the battle of Casablanca in the North African campaign, in the Sicilian campaign, spent three months on the Anzio beachhead and was in two campaigns in Italy and one in France.
He was in the amphibian engineers until he was transferred in September, 1944, to the combat engineers.
Besides his wife, he is survived by a daughter Dianna; his mother, Mrs. J. L. Scott of Eugene, Ore., and his grandmother, Mrs. George Bishop, 1037 Lincoln, Baxter Springs.
Orville L. Foster
First Sergeant, U.S. Army
Service # 37157105
36th Engineer Combat Regiment
Entered the Service from: Kansas
Died: 30-Dec-44
Buried at: Plot E Row 25 Grave 38
Lorraine American Cemetery
St. Avold, France
Awards: Purple Heart
BAXTER SPRINGS MAN
KILLED IN FRANCE
Sergeant Orville Foster, Previously
Reported Missing, Slain
December 30.
Baxter Springs, Kan., May 1.— Mrs. Helen Foster was advised by the war department today that her husband, Sergeant Orville (Slats) Foster, 27 years old, was killed in action in France December 30, and that a letter of confirmation would follow.
A wire had been received January 16 saying Sergeant Foster had been reported missing in action since December 30.
Sergeant Foster was born in Galena and was raised in the Tri-State district. He attended high school in Miami and Riverton and graduated at Riverton in 1936 (sic) [1937]. He was married November 29, 1941, to Miss Helen Payne of Baxter Springs.
Prior to entering the service, he was employed by the Price Motor Company.
Foster entered the service in April, 1942, and took most of his basic training at Camp Roberts, Calif., and Camp Edwards, Mass. He was sent overseas in October, 1942.
He participated in the battle of Casablanca in the North African campaign, in the Sicilian campaign, spent three months on the Anzio beachhead and was in two campaigns in Italy and one in France.
He was in the amphibian engineers until he was transferred in September, 1944, to the combat engineers.
Besides his wife, he is survived by a daughter Dianna; his mother, Mrs. J. L. Scott of Eugene, Ore., and his grandmother, Mrs. George Bishop, 1037 Lincoln, Baxter Springs.
First Sergeant, U.S. Army
Service # 37157105
36th Engineer Combat Regiment
Entered the Service from: Kansas
Died: 30-Dec-44
Buried at: Plot E Row 25 Grave 38
Lorraine American Cemetery
St. Avold, France
Awards: Purple Heart
BAXTER SPRINGS MAN
KILLED IN FRANCE
Sergeant Orville Foster, Previously
Reported Missing, Slain
December 30.
Baxter Springs, Kan., May 1.— Mrs. Helen Foster was advised by the war department today that her husband, Sergeant Orville (Slats) Foster, 27 years old, was killed in action in France December 30, and that a letter of confirmation would follow.
A wire had been received January 16 saying Sergeant Foster had been reported missing in action since December 30.
Sergeant Foster was born in Galena and was raised in the Tri-State district. He attended high school in Miami and Riverton and graduated at Riverton in 1936 (sic) [1937]. He was married November 29, 1941, to Miss Helen Payne of Baxter Springs.
Prior to entering the service, he was employed by the Price Motor Company.
Foster entered the service in April, 1942, and took most of his basic training at Camp Roberts, Calif., and Camp Edwards, Mass. He was sent overseas in October, 1942.
He participated in the battle of Casablanca in the North African campaign, in the Sicilian campaign, spent three months on the Anzio beachhead and was in two campaigns in Italy and one in France.
He was in the amphibian engineers until he was transferred in September, 1944, to the combat engineers.
Besides his wife, he is survived by a daughter Dianna; his mother, Mrs. J. L. Scott of Eugene, Ore., and his grandmother, Mrs. George Bishop, 1037 Lincoln, Baxter Springs.
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1 SGT 36 ENGR COMBAT REGT
KANSAS DEC 30 1944
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