According to the Korean War Educator site, Sergeant First Class Ernest Joseph Fontaine's body was never recovered. The site lists his date of death as 2 December 1950, however the memoir below of James Calvin DeLong, who witnessed Fontaine's death states his date of death was 28 December 1950. Ernest Jospeh Fontaine's parents are listed as Ernest J. and Sarah Moriarty Fontaine.

By the time we got back to the perimeter, it was daylight and the fighting had stopped and we were safe. That was November 27, 1950. We just dug in for the rest of the day and they gave us rations. I regrouped the men that I had left and set up our perimeter for the next night's battle. We knew that we were surrounded. We knew that we were going to have a battle. It was just a question of how long and how many of them were going to come at us. I had a real good friend that got killed there. He was a rifleman who got shot right between the eyes. His name was Sergeant Fontaine from Providence, Rhode Island. He was with Morrell’s Marauders in Burma during the Second World War. He was a real good soldier. Sharp. He was with the 3rd platoon as one of my squad leaders. He was somebody I had met in Japan. I always had a lot of respect for him. He was only a private in Japan, but he was a sergeant first class when we got to Korea. He was a combat experienced soldier and we needed those kind alive. He was a good soldier.

I considered Sergeant Fontaine a very good friend. I had a lot of respect for him. In Japan, nobody bothered him. I thought he was a good soldier. I always prided myself on personally knowing somebody that was a good soldier. I got to know him even more as we went into Korea. We used to sit and shoot the bull at night in our foxholes. He definitely helped me learn how to be a combat soldier. He taught me that a soldier has to fight and do what he has to do. He must do it instantly--kill and don’t think anything of it. And that’s what he did. I didn't have any trouble killing from the very beginning. When they came after me, I shot back, and it didn't bother me. I never had any remorse about what I did over there. There was never a time when I saw the enemy as anything other than the enemy. I didn't think of them as somebody's son. I knew they were going to try to kill me and if I didn't try to kill them first, I would be dead. That's the way I looked at it.

There were three of us in the foxhole that night--an assistant machine gunner--a young kid, Sergeant Fontaine, and me. Fontaine had an M-1. I was in the foxhole right next to him when he got killed. There were 21 Chinese lined up in front of his foxhole the next morning. He had killed that many before they finally got him. I knew that they were coming in on him so I turned my machine gun as far as I could. I couldn’t get it any further, though. I tried to keep them off of him, but I couldn’t stop them. They just came so fast and so hard.

They didn't come into the foxhole. The one that evidently got him was laying right on the front of the foxhole with his rifle right in his face. I don't know if that's the one that killed him or not, but like I said, he was shot right between the eyes. I cried like a baby. His death had a great deal more effect on me than the first one I saw that I had to carry down. Fontaine wasn't married and he had no girlfriends that I know of. I don't even know if he had parents living at the time. He was a career soldier. I mean, he already had like 12 years in the Army in 1950. He went in about 1940 or something like that. Sergeant Fontaine got killed on November 28. There was no Graves Registration with us. We left him right in the hole and that’s where he stayed until we moved out because we didn’t take any of our dead with us. He might still be in that hole up there, I don’t know.

From the memoirs of James Calvin DeLong
Leesport, PA-
Korean War Veteran of the United States Army
Ex-Prisoner of War
http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/memoirs/delong_james/index.htm

Listed on the Korean War Memorial in Dayton, Ohio, Cenotaph > Rhode Island Panel 2