Sgt. Joseph H. Brock

The Tribune
Seymour, Indiana
Tuesday, March 27, 1951
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Joseph Brock Missing in Korean Action

Medora Sergeant Is Casualty Less Than Two Months After Reported Wounded

A Jackson county soldier, recently returned to duty after being wounded in Korea, now is listed as missing in action, his parents reported today.

Sgt. Joseph H. Brock, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ephie Brock, Medora R1, has been missing since February 12, according to a telegram received from the Department of Defense last week.

In December the family received a telegram which stated their son had been wounded November 27. He was returned to duty two weeks later.

With Second Division

Sgt. Brock enlisted in the 101st Airborne Division January 3, 1949, and took basic training at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky. In July 1950 he shipped out for Korea from Ft. Lewis, Washington.

The second Division was one of the first American units to be thrown into the Korean fighting and has been the workhorse of the nine-month campaign.

The Tribune
Seymour, Indiana
Tuesday, August 5, 1952
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Rites To Be Held For Sgt. Brock, Killed in Action

Funeral rites for Sergeant Joseph H. Brock, 21, who died in action in Korea February 12, 1951, will be conducted from the Hague Funeral Hoome in Medora Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock (CST) with the Rev. Robert Sachs, pastor of the Evangelical-United Brethren Church in Medora, in charge. Burial in Fairview Cemetery in Brownstown. Camp Jackson Post No. 112, American Legion, Brownstown, will conduct military rites.

The body arrived by train this morning in Medora. Friends may call at the Hague Funeral Home at any time.

Sergeant Brock, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ephie Brock, of Medora, shipped to Korea in July 1950 from Fort Lewis, Washington with the Second Division. He had enlisted in the 101st Airborne Division on January 3, 1949 and took his basic training at Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky. On November 27, 1950, Sgt. Brock, was wounded and had only been back on duty two months when he was declared missing in February. he was declared officially dead on July 10, 1951. Sgt. Brock was a platoon sergeant with the Second Division, on of the first dividions of American soldiers to be thrown at the communists in the Korean War.

Sgt. Brock was born on September 5, 1928, the son of Ephie and Ida Calloway Brock, who survive. Other survivors are, four brothers, George, Arvil, Pearl Edward and Ephie Brock, Jr., all of Medora; and four sisters, Mrs. Geneva Jean, of Medora; Mrs. Magdalene Foist, Seymour; and Miss Selma and Miss Jewel Brock, both at home.