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Submitted: 5/26/21 • Approved: 5/31/21 • Last Updated: 6/3/21 • R421862-G0-S3
Texas
PRIVATE 8th Cavalry Infantry 1st Cavalry Division Infantry
Korea
Killed in action
May 20, 1931-November 21, 1951
Purple Heart
Notes: Private Calvert was a member of the 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in North Korea on November 21, 1951. Private Calvert was awarded the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman's Badge, 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.
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
The body of PFC James O. Colvert, 20, who was killed November 21, 1951, while fighting with the armed forces in Korea, will arrive in Borger, tonight.
The body will rest at the Blackburn-Shaw-Brown Funeral Home until 2 p.m. Sunday when services will be conducted in the funeral home chapel with Winfred Moore, Pastor of the First Baptist Church, Borger officiating.
Graveside rites in Highland Park cemetery will be under the direction of the local post of The Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Private Colvert is survived by his mother, Mrs. Nellie Swinford of Borger; three brothers; H.A. Colvert who is stationed with the army in California; two sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Franks, Borger, and Mrs. Nelda Rowland, Milburn, Oklahoma.
(Published in Borger News Herald, February 22, 1952)
WWI, WWII, and Korean War Casualty Listings
Name: James O. Calvert
Birth Date: 1931
Birth City: Hutchinson
State Registered: Texas
Death Date: 21 Nov 1951
Death Country: Korea
Death Description: Killed in Action
War: Korean War
Title: Private, U.S. Army
Rank: Private
Service: U.S. Army
Service ID: 54039704
Notes: Private Calvert was a member of the 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in North Korea on November 21, 1951. Private Calvert was awarded the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman's Badge, 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.
Data Source: Korean War Veterans Honor Roll
Contributed on 5/26/21
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