Lindsay, Francis Eugene
Army Corporal

Francis Eugene Lindsay, age 21, from Missouri, Saint Francois county.

Parents: Hilda A. Lindsay

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: On November 15, 2006, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant Francis Eugene Lindsay, missing from the Korean War. Sergeant Lindsay entered the U.S. Army from Missouri and served in Company B, 70th Tank Battalion, attached to the 1st Cavalry Division. On the night of November 1, 1950, elements of the 1st Cavalry Division including the attached 70th Tank Battalion were attacked and overwhelmed by Chinese Communist Forces near Unsan, North Korea. During the rapid withdrawal, hundreds of American soldiers went missing, among them SGT Lindsay. In 2000, a joint U.S. and North Korean team excavated a burial site near Unsan and recovered several sets of human remains. Forensic analysts were able to identify SGT Lindsay from among the recovered remains.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Saint Louis Naborhood Link News (1950)