Bockey, Robert Charles
Army Corporal

Robert Charles Bockey from West Virginia, Hancock county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Monday, November 27, 1950
Death details: On April 21, 2009, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant Robert Charles Bockey, missing from the Korean War. Sergeant Bockey entered the U.S. Army from West Virginia and was a member of Company C, 65th Combat Engineer Battalion, 25th Infantry Division. On November 27, 1950, Company C was holding a position near Hill 222, just south of the Kuryong River in the Pyongan-Pukto Province of North Korea, when they came under attack by Chinese Communist Forces. SGT Bockey was killed during this combat and his body was not recovered at the time. In 2000, a joint U.S./North Korean team excavated a burial site at Hill 222 and recovered human remains; U.S. analysts used modern forensic techniques to eventually identify SGT Bockey among the remains recovered.

Source: National Archives, Defence POW/MIA Accounting Agency