The Korean War Veterans Honor Roll
John Herbert Coskey
Rank
Corporal, U.S. Army
Unit
K CO 21 INF 24 DIV
Date of Death
November 12, 1950
Corporal Coskey was a member of Company K, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy in South Korea on July 11, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died while a prisoner at Chunggang-jin, North Korea on November 12, 1950. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.