Allums Morris

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Morris Allums is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:

UN Memorial Wall of Remembrance

Name:

Morris Allums

Rank:

Master Sergeant

Serial Number:

14035656

Unit:

2nd Infantry Division

Date of Death:

1951-01-31

State:

Alabama

Cemetery:

Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA

Plot:

Court 4

Row:

Grave:

Decoration:

Korean Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Prisoner of War Medal, Purple Heart, Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Republic of Korea War Service Medal, United Nations Service Medal

Comments:

Morris Allums was born on August 21, 1910, in Walker County, Alabama. He served in Battery D, 82nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery (Automatic Weapons) Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, as a Master Sergeant and Mess Steward during the Korean War.

MSgt Allums was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy along the Chongchon River near Kunu-ri, North Korea on December 1, 1950, and died while a prisoner on January 31, 1951. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.

Source of information: www.findagrave.com, weremember.abmc.gov