Master Sergeant Teixeira was a member of Headquarters, 63rd Field Artillery Battalion, 24th Infantry Division. He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy along the Kum River, South Korea on July 14, 1950, forced to march to North Korea on the "Tiger Death March", and died while a prisoner at Hanjang-ni, North Korea on November 21, 1950. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.