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About Francis Edward Foley, CMG
Major Francis Edward Foley CMG (24 November 1884, Highbridge, Somerset – 8 May 1958, Stourbridge) was a British Secret Intelligence Service officer. As a passport control officer for the British embassy in Berlin, Foley "bent the rules" and helped thousands of Jewish families escape from Nazi Germany after Kristallnacht and before the outbreak of the Second World War. He is officially recognised as a British Hero of the Holocaust
He was the third son of Isabella and Andrew Wood Foley, a Tiverton-born railway worker, whose family may have originated from Roscommon in Ireland in the early 1800s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Foley
http://db.yadvashem.org/righteous/family.html?language=en&itemId=40...
http://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/stories/foley.html
Captain Foley died in 1958. A Daily Telegraph journalist, Michael Smith, brought Foley’s story to light in his book Foley, the Spy who saved 10,000 Jews (1999)
http://hmd.org.uk/resources/stories/frank-foley-0
http://hmd.org.uk/sites/default/files/HMD_files/frank_foley.pdf
http://hmd.org.uk/sites/default/files/files/stories/44._frank_foley...
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/british-spy-frank-foley-who-save...
https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-spy-agency-celebrates-agent-who-sa...
Francis Edward Foley
- 1891 England & Wales Census
- Birth: Circa 1885 - Highbridge, Somersetshire
- Residence: 1891 - 7 Wallrow Terrace, Highbridge Part of, Somersetshire, England
- Parents: Andrew Wood Foley, Isabella Foley
- Siblings: Andrew David Foley, Arthur Herbert Foley, George Wilfred Foley, Margaret E J Foley
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Francis Edward Foley, CMG's Timeline
| 1884 |
November 24, 1884
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Highbridge, Somerset, England, United Kingdom
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| 1922 |
August 25, 1922
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Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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| 1958 |
May 8, 1958
Age 73
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Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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