Date of birth:

March 15th, 1900 (Lewistown/Pensylvania, United States)

Date of death:

February 3rd, 1943 (North Atlantic Ocean)

Mentioned on:

East Coast Memorial U.S.A.

Nationality:

American

George L. Fox was born on in Lewistown, Pensylvania on 15th March 1900 as one of five children. At the age of 17 he joined the U.S. Army and fought as a Medical Orderly on the Western Front, earning the Silver Star, Purple Heart and French Croix de Guerre. After the war he finished High School and worked for a trust company. Following he went studying at the Moody Bible Institute and at the Illinois Wesleyan University. In 1923 he got married an became father in 1924. He graduated in 1931. After his graduation he became a Methodist preacher in Downs, Illinois and later Rye, New Hampshire. After joining the Boston University School of Theology he becam an ordained minister in 1934. Following this he took on a church in Waits River, Vermont, and for a second time became a father. He remained in Vermont, moving church twice and becoming the state chaplain and historian for the American Legion.

When the Second World War broke out, Fox joined the Army again in 1942. On the same day his oldest child (son Wyatt Ray) joined the Marine Corps. Late 1942 he was transferred to Camp Myles Standish in Taunton, Massachusetts and attended Chaplains School at Harvard University, England. There he met fellow chaplains Alexander D. Goode, Clark V. Poling and John P. Washington. In January 1943, the chaplains embarked on board the U.S.A.T. Dorchester for a journey with 900 military to Greenland. On 2nd February 1943 the ship was torpedoed by U-223. George L. Fox stayed, together with the other three chaplains with the men that could not leave the ship and died.

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Period:

First World War (1914-1918)

Period:

First World War (1914-1918)

Period:

First World War (1914-1918)

Period:

First World War (1914-1918)

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Lieutenant

Unit:

Army Chaplain Service

Awarded on:

1944

Synopsis:
"For extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy in action against enemy forces on 3 February 1943. Chaplain Fox was one of four Army Chaplains aboard the U.S.A.T. Dorchester which was torpedoed in the North Atlantic. He and his comrades bravely brought order to panicked soldiers as the ship was sinking and, when no more life jackets were available, he gave up his own life jacket to another man. Chaplain Fox's intrepid actions, personal bravery and zealous devotion to duty at the cost of his life, exemplify the highest traditions of the military forces of the United States and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army."

War Department, General Orders No. 93 (1944).
Awarded Posthumously.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Lieutenant

Unit:

Army Chaplain Service

Awarded on:

January 18th, 1961

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Lieutenant

Unit:

Army Chaplain Service

Second Purple Heart awarded posthumously as an oak leaf cluster for on the ribbon of the first Purple Heart.

Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

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