Christian, Stuart Brooks
Army Private

Stuart Brooks Christian from Virginia, Henrico county.

Service era: Korea

Date of death: Wednesday, March 21, 1951
Death details: On July 11, 1950, the U.S. Army’s 21st Infantry Regiment, which had arrived in Korea six days earlier, was placed in defensive positions near the town of Chochiwon, South Korea. The regiment was not at full strength and lacked artillery and anti-tank weapons. That day, they were attacked by North Korean forces and were forced to withdraw to avoid being surrounded, as well as to buy time until they could be reinforced and resupplied. Private First Class Stuart Brooks Christian, who joined the U.S. Army from Virginia, served with M Company, 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division. He was captured by enemy forces on July 12, near Chochiwon and forced to march north to a prison camp at Hanjang-ni, North Korea. He died there on March 21, 1951, of malnutrition and pneumonia, and was buried by his fellow prisoners near the camp. However, after the war, his remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody. Today, Private First Class Christian is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency