MOUNT VERNON — The remains of an Mt. Vernon missing in action since December 1950 will come home to be buried in July.

A native of Mount Vernon, Illinois, Sgt. Howard G. Malcolm was a member of Headquarters Company, Ninth Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division.
Malcolm was reported missing in action on December 1, 1950, when he was 23. Several Prisoners of War who returned in 1953 reported that Malcolm had been a POW who dies in August 1951 at POW Camp No. 5.

North Korea returned remains reportedly recovered from Camp No. 5, also known as Pyoktong, to the United Nations Command in 1954 during Operation Glory.
However, Malcolm’s name did not appear on any transfer rosters and was determined non-recoverable in October 1955.

In July 2018, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency planned to disinter 652 Korean War unknowns from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Malcolm was accounted for by the DPAA on October 25, 2022, after his remains were identified using chest radiograph comparison as well as dental, anthropological, and mitochondrial DNA analysis.

Sgt. Malcolm will be interred on July 11 at the Beth Memorial Cemetery in Mount Vernon. Sutherland-Rankin Funeral Home, Salem, Illinois, will perform graveside services preceding the interment.