After wartime service Foley retired quietly to Stourbridge, a town in the West Midlands region of England, where he lived until his death in 1958. In his lifetime, Foley was never recognised for his heroic achievements as he never spoke about them. It was only in 1999 that he was recognised by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations, after his story was brought to wider attention by the author Michael Smith in his book ‘The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews’.