Brickell, Lewis Grant
Army Sergeant

Lewis Grant Brickell, age 19, from Tennessee, Hamilton county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Monday, September 4, 1950
Death details: On September 29, 2009, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant First Class Lewis Grant Brickell, missing from the Korean War. Sergeant First Class Brickell joined the U.S. Army from Tennessee and was a member of Company D, 8th Engineer Combat Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division. On September 4, 1950, SFC Brickell was captured by North Korean forces during an engagement at the fortified summit of Kasan, west of Taegu, South Korea. He died at some point while in enemy custody, though the exact circumstances surrounding his loss are unknown. In 1954, as part of Operation Glory, the North Korean government returned to U.S. custody a set of remains recovered from the Chosin Reservoir area of North Korea. The remains could not be associated with any known losses that occurred in the Chosin Reservoir area, and they were buried as unknowns at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Advances in forensic technology eventually prompted the reexamination of these remains, and they were identified as those of SFC Brickell.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency