Roy, Robert Snyder
Army Private 1st class

Robert Snyder Roy, age 20, from Oklahoma, Kay county.

Service era: Korea
Military history: 35th Infantry Regiment

Date of death: Monday, November 27, 1950
Death details: On November 27, 1950, B Company of the U.S. Army’s 35th Infantry Regiment, an element of Task Force Dolvin/Wilson, was holding a hastily erected defensive position near the village of Tong-dong, North Korea, when Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) attacked the company’s perimeter from two sides. After heavy fighting, the Chinese successfully infiltrated the American positions, forcing a withdrawal under heavy mortar and artillery fire. The U.S. troops pulled back to another position a mile farther south. Corporal Robert Snyder Roy entered the U.S. Army from Oklahoma and served with B Company, 1st Battalion, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. He was captured during the action near Unsan, North Korea, on November 27, 1950, during the withdrawal from Tong-dong. Repatriated prisoners of war (POWs) later reported that CPL Roy died at Camp 5, Pyoktong, North Korea, on April 14, 1951, and was buried along the Yalu River, across from Camp 5. He was not identified among the remains returned to the U.S. following the ceasefire, and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, Corporal Roy is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
Cemetery: Ponca Indian Tribal Cemetery, White Eagle

Source: National Archives, 35th Infantry Regiment Association, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency