Prince Edward County Virginia

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)

Carter, William Marshall
Army Private 1st class

William Marshall Carter from Rice, Virginia, Prince Edward county.

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Monday, July 6, 1942
Death details: Following the Allied surrender on the Bataan Peninsula on April 9, 1942, the Japanese began the forcible transfer of American and Filipino prisoners of war to various prison camps in central Luzon, at the northern end of the Philippines. The largest of these camps was the notorious Cabanatuan Prison Camp. At its peak, Cabanatuan held approximately 8,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war that were captured during and after the Fall of Bataan. Camp overcrowding worsened with the arrival of Allied prisoners who had surrendered from Corregidor on May 6, 1942. Conditions at the camp were poor, with food and water extremely limited, leading to widespread malnutrition and outbreaks of malaria and dysentery. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, approximately 2,800 Americans had died at Cabanatuan. Prisoners were forced to bury the dead in makeshift communal graves, often completed without records or markers. As a result, identifying and recovering remains interred at Cabanatuan was difficult in the years after the war. Private First Class William M. Carter entered the U.S. Army Air Forces from Virginia and served with the 28th Bombardment Squadron, 19th Bombardment Group in the Philippines during World War II. He was captured in Bataan following the American surrender on April 9, 1942, and died of malaria and dysentery on July 6, 1942, at the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province. He was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other deceased American POWs; however, his remains could not be associated with any remains recovered from Cabanatuan after the war. Today, Private First Class Carter is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery in the Philippines.

Source: National Archives; Virginia Military Dead database, Library of Virginia Richmond, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency

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