Also see for additional information:
Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA - MEMORIAL ID 178345605
and
National Korean War Veterans Memorial, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA - MEMORIAL ID 118999463
Homer had been living in Dallas, TX when he entered the service.
He was a Light Weapons Infantryman in Company A, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division.
He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy along the Chongchon River near Kunu-ri in North Korea on November 30, 1950 and died while in captivity on January 22, 1951.
His remains were never recovered.
Sergeant Abney was awarded the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman's Badge, the Prisoner of War Medal, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.
***UPDATE*** provided by Find a Grave contributor ErgoSum (48057957) on 24 Jun 2023:
On July 26, 2016, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant
Homer Ray Abney, missing from the Korean War.
Sergeant Abney joined the U.S. Army from Texas and was a member of A Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was captured on November 30, 1950, as his unit withdrew from advancing Chinese Communist Forces from Kunu-ri to Sunchon, North Korea. He was interned at a prison camp in the Pukchin-Tarigol Valley in North Korea, where he died of illness in March 1951. His remains were not recovered immediately following the war.
In 2005, a joint U.S./North Korean investigation team recovered human remains from a site near the Pukchin-Tarigol camps. SGT Abney was eventually identified from among the remains recovered.
Sergeant Abney is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
.
Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA - MEMORIAL ID 178345605
and
National Korean War Veterans Memorial, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA - MEMORIAL ID 118999463
Homer had been living in Dallas, TX when he entered the service.
He was a Light Weapons Infantryman in Company A, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division.
He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy along the Chongchon River near Kunu-ri in North Korea on November 30, 1950 and died while in captivity on January 22, 1951.
His remains were never recovered.
Sergeant Abney was awarded the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman's Badge, the Prisoner of War Medal, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.
***UPDATE*** provided by Find a Grave contributor ErgoSum (48057957) on 24 Jun 2023:
On July 26, 2016, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant
Homer Ray Abney, missing from the Korean War.
Sergeant Abney joined the U.S. Army from Texas and was a member of A Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was captured on November 30, 1950, as his unit withdrew from advancing Chinese Communist Forces from Kunu-ri to Sunchon, North Korea. He was interned at a prison camp in the Pukchin-Tarigol Valley in North Korea, where he died of illness in March 1951. His remains were not recovered immediately following the war.
In 2005, a joint U.S./North Korean investigation team recovered human remains from a site near the Pukchin-Tarigol camps. SGT Abney was eventually identified from among the remains recovered.
Sergeant Abney is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
.
Also see for additional information:
Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA - MEMORIAL ID 178345605
and
National Korean War Veterans Memorial, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA - MEMORIAL ID 118999463
Homer had been living in Dallas, TX when he entered the service.
He was a Light Weapons Infantryman in Company A, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division.
He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy along the Chongchon River near Kunu-ri in North Korea on November 30, 1950 and died while in captivity on January 22, 1951.
His remains were never recovered.
Sergeant Abney was awarded the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman's Badge, the Prisoner of War Medal, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.
***UPDATE*** provided by Find a Grave contributor ErgoSum (48057957) on 24 Jun 2023:
On July 26, 2016, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant
Homer Ray Abney, missing from the Korean War.
Sergeant Abney joined the U.S. Army from Texas and was a member of A Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was captured on November 30, 1950, as his unit withdrew from advancing Chinese Communist Forces from Kunu-ri to Sunchon, North Korea. He was interned at a prison camp in the Pukchin-Tarigol Valley in North Korea, where he died of illness in March 1951. His remains were not recovered immediately following the war.
In 2005, a joint U.S./North Korean investigation team recovered human remains from a site near the Pukchin-Tarigol camps. SGT Abney was eventually identified from among the remains recovered.
Sergeant Abney is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
.
Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA - MEMORIAL ID 178345605
and
National Korean War Veterans Memorial, Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA - MEMORIAL ID 118999463
Homer had been living in Dallas, TX when he entered the service.
He was a Light Weapons Infantryman in Company A, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division.
He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy along the Chongchon River near Kunu-ri in North Korea on November 30, 1950 and died while in captivity on January 22, 1951.
His remains were never recovered.
Sergeant Abney was awarded the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman's Badge, the Prisoner of War Medal, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.
***UPDATE*** provided by Find a Grave contributor ErgoSum (48057957) on 24 Jun 2023:
On July 26, 2016, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant
Homer Ray Abney, missing from the Korean War.
Sergeant Abney joined the U.S. Army from Texas and was a member of A Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He was captured on November 30, 1950, as his unit withdrew from advancing Chinese Communist Forces from Kunu-ri to Sunchon, North Korea. He was interned at a prison camp in the Pukchin-Tarigol Valley in North Korea, where he died of illness in March 1951. His remains were not recovered immediately following the war.
In 2005, a joint U.S./North Korean investigation team recovered human remains from a site near the Pukchin-Tarigol camps. SGT Abney was eventually identified from among the remains recovered.
Sergeant Abney is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
.
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