Glasgow, Frank Edmond
Army Private

Frank Edmond Glasgow, age 20, from Prince Edward County Farmville, Virginia .

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Monday, September 4, 1950
Death details: On August 31, 1950, the North Korean People’s Army (NKPA) engaged in a large-scale offensive against the U.S. defensive line in South Korea. The defensive position, known as the Pusan Perimeter, was intended to prevent NKPA forces from reaching the harbor in Pusan, South Korea, where American reinforcements would arrive. The late-August offensive allowed the NKPA to penetrate deep into allied territory. On September 3, members of the 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, organized near Yongsan, South Korea and counterattacked the NKPA forces. By September 5, with the help of air and artillery support, the U.S. counteroffensive succeeded in pushing the enemy back across the Naktong River. Private First Class Frank Edmond Glasgow, who joined the U.S. Army from Virginia, was a member of G Company of the 2nd Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, and he was among men who took part in the counterattack near Yongsan. PFC Glasgow went missing in action during the fighting on September 4. He was never seen alive in enemy hands as a prisoner of war, and searches of the Yongsan area following the end of hostilities were unsuccessful in locating his remains. Today, Private First Class Glasgow is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, which was updated in 2022 to include the names of the fallen.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Farmville Herald (1954)