Gaumer, Charles Edward
Army Private 1st class
Charles Edward Gaumer, age 25, from Pennsylvania, Montour county.
Service era: Korea
Military history: 35th Infantry Regiment
Date of death: Monday, November 27, 1950
Death details: On November 27, 1950, B Company of the U.S. Army’s 35th Infantry Regiment, an element of Task Force Dolvin/Wilson, was holding a hastily erected defensive position near the village of Tong-dong, North Korea, when Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) attacked the company’s perimeter from two sides. After heavy fighting, the Chinese successfully infiltrated the American positions, forcing a withdrawal under heavy mortar and artillery fire. The U.S. troops pulled back to another position a mile farther south. Corporal Charles Edward Gaumer entered the U.S. Army from Pennsylvania and served with B Company of the 1st Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. On November 27, 1950, he was killed in action during the withdrawal near Tong-dong, and his body could not be recovered at the time of his loss. His remains were not identified among those returned to the U.S. following the end of the war, and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, Corporal Gaumer is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Source: National Archives, 35th Infantry Regiment Association, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency