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Silas Wayne Boyiddle
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Rank
Private First Class, U.S. Army
Unit
L CO 21 INF 24 DIV
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Date of Death
October 31, 1951
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Private First Class Boyiddle was a member of Company L, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy near Chochiwon, South Korea on July 11, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died while a prisoner at 'The Cornfield" near Manpo, North Korea on October 31, 1951. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial. |
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