Plaque honouring Frank Edward Foley, outside Mary Stevens Park, Stourbridge

The plaque is to be found in the park's boundary wall near the main gates. It reads, "A tribute to a Stourbridge man who saved many thousands of oppressed people from the Holocaust Frank Edward Foley 1884-1958 Honoured by Israel at Yad Vashem Jerusalem October 1999 as righteous among the nations". The tree on the right of the plaque was originally coloured brown and the outline of the bird was white but these colours have unfortunately faded somewhat. The inspiring story of Captain Foley's bravery and of the tens of thousands of lives he helped save from the Nazi's in Germany during the years leading up to the commencement of World War II is too long to set out here, but can easily be found by an internet search for his name. SO8983 : Flowerbed outside Mary Stevens Park, Stourbridge.

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