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Alfred K. Gymer, age 28, from Indiana, Vanderburgh county.
Parents: William E. (1857 – 1940) and Christina Gymer (1859 – 1951)
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Tuesday, August 27, 1918
Death details: Died of pneumonia at Camp Sherman, Ohio
Cemetery: Oak Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Indiana
Source: Indiana Historical Commission, grave marker
George L. Slagle, age 23, from Whitley County South Whitley, Indiana .
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Thursday, July 18, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Source: Soldiers of the Great War
Sylvan Gazel, age 26, from Madison County Ellwood, Indiana .
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Monday, July 15, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Source: Soldiers of the Great War
Jesse R. Kemple, age 24, from Rego, Indiana, Orange county.
Parents: Jacob Kemple
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Saturday, November 17, 1917
Death details: Died of tuberculosis at Rockerfeller Hospital, New York
Cemetery: Oak Grove Cemetery, Rego, Indiana
Source: Indiana Historical Commission, grave marker
Ernest Ezra Byrer, age 17, from Indiana, Daviess county.
Parents: Alson (deceased) and Gertrude Byrer (Garten)
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Monday, October 29, 1917
Death details: Died of measles, Vanal Hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts
Cemetery: Buried at Tolbert’s Chapel, Bogard Township, Daviess County
Source: Indiana Historical Commission, grave marker
Gene Eckerty from Indiana, Gibson county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: Killed in action
Source: National Archives
William Greentree from Indiana, Gibson county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: Died of wounds
Cemetery: White Church, Gibson County
Source: National Archives, grave marker
John Vaughan from Indiana.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: Died of accident
Source: Soldiers of the Great War
Robert Vernon Estes from White County Monticello, Indiana .
Parents: Harry Stockdale, mother died shortly after he was declared missing.
Service era: Korea
Schools: Lincoln school
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 Robert Vernon Estes joined the U.S. Army from Indiana and was a member of Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. On November 30, 1950, he was captured by enemy forces outside of Kunu-ri, as his unit conducted its fighting withdrawal toward Sunchon. Corporal Estes was marched to a prisoner of war camp in North Korea known as the Mining Camp, where he died in January of 1951. He was not identified among remains returned to U.S. custody after the war, and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, Corporal Estes 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, Monticello Daily Herald Journal (1954)
Willard Mathew Gibson from Sullivan County Shelburn, Indiana .
Parents: Cecil Gibson
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. Sergeant Willard Mathew Gibson, who joined the U.S. Army from Indiana, was a member of E Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was captured by the CCF on December 1, 1950, during the fighting withdrawal from Kunu-ri. He was eventually marched to Camp 5, a prison camp on the bank of the Yalu River in Pyoktong, North Korea, where he died of illness in June 1951. His remains have not been recovered, and he was not identified among remains returned to U.S. custody after the war. Today, Sergeant Gibson 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, Terre Haute Tribune (1952)