Sgt. 1st Class Harry E. Harkness was a member of Company L, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy near Unsan, North Korea on November 2, 1950 and died while a prisoner on April 30, 1951. His remains were not recovered at the time. Through the work of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the remains of Sgt. 1st Class Harkness were accounted for in 2017. His name is permanently inscribed in the “Courts of the Missing” at the Honolulu Memorial.