George Gibbs from Crenshaw County Brantley, Alabama .
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: Died of disease
Source: Soldiers of the Great War
Gibbs, George
Gibson, Willis
Corporal
Willis Gibson from Washington County Vinegar Den, Alabama .
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: Killed in action
Source: Soldiers of the Great War
Allums, Morris
Army Sergeant 1st class
Morris Allums from Walker County Alabama.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: By mid-November 1950, U.S. and Allied forces had advanced to within approximately sixty miles of the Yalu River, the border between North Korea and China. On November 25, approximately 300,000 Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) “volunteers” suddenly and fiercely counterattacked after crossing the Yalu. The 2nd Infantry Division, located the farthest north of units at the Chongchon River, could not halt the CCF advance and was ordered to withdraw to defensive positions at Sunchon in the South Pyongan province of North Korea. As the division pulled back from Kunu-ri toward Sunchon, it conducted an intense rearguard action while fighting to break through well-defended roadblocks set up by CCF infiltrators. The withdrawal was not complete until December 1, and the 2nd Infantry Division suffered extremely heavy casualties in the process. Master Sergeant Morris Allums, who joined the U.S Army from Alabama, was a member of Battery D, 82nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery (Automatic Weapons) Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. On December 1, 1950, he was captured by enemy forces near Kunu-ri as his unit made their withdrawal toward Sunchon. MSG Allums was marched to the Death Valley prison camp in North Korea, where he died in January 1951. He was not identified among remains returned to U.S. custody after the war, and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, Master Sergeant Allums is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, which was updated in 2022 to include the names of the fallen.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Associated Press (1953)
Coates, Roman Willies
Army Private 1st class
Roman Willies Coates from Jefferson County Birmingham, Alabama .
Parents: Agnes Coates
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: By mid-November 1950, U.S. and Allied forces had advanced to within approximately sixty miles of the Yalu River, the border between North Korea and China. On November 25, approximately 300,000 Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) “volunteers” suddenly and fiercely counterattacked after crossing the Yalu. The 2nd Infantry Division, located the farthest north of units at the Chongchon River, could not halt the CCF advance and was ordered to withdraw to defensive positions at Sunchon in the South Pyongan province of North Korea. As the division pulled back from Kunu-ri toward Sunchon, it conducted an intense rearguard action while fighting to break through well-defended roadblocks set up by CCF infiltrators. The withdrawal was not complete until December 1, and the 2nd Infantry Division suffered extremely heavy casualties in the process. Corporal Roman Willies Coates joined the U.S. Army from Alabama and was a member of Battery B, 503rd Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. On November 30, 1950, he was captured by enemy forces south of Kunu-ri, as his unit made their fighting withdrawal toward Sunchon. He was marched to a prisoner of war camp in Kaechon, North Korea, where, in January 1951, he died of wounds he had suffered in the earlier fighting. He was not identified among remains returned to U.S. custody after the war, and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, Corporal Coates is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, which was updated in 2022 to include the names of the fallen.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Birmingham Post Herald (1954)