Bevels, Charles Marion
Army Corporal

Charles Marion Bevels from Houston, Mississippi, Chickasaw county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Sunday, December 24, 1950
Death details: On July 11, 1950, the U.S. Army’s 21st Infantry Regiment, which had arrived in Korea six days earlier, was placed in defensive positions near the town of Chochiwon, South Korea. The regiment was not at full strength and lacked artillery and anti-tank weapons. That day, they were attacked by North Korean forces and were forced to withdraw to avoid being surrounded, as well as to buy time until they could be reinforced and resupplied. Sergeant Charles Marion Bevels, who joined the U.S. Army from Mississippi, served with I Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was captured by enemy forces on July 12, 1950, near Chochiwon and forced to march to a prison camp at the village of Hanjang-ni near the Yalu River. He died at the camp of exhaustion and pneumonia on December 24, 1950. Although he was buried near the camp, his remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody after the war. Today, Sergeant Bevels is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency