New Hampshire Korean War soldier who went missing identified, buried

LITTLETON, N.H. (AP) — The stays of a soldier from New Hampshire who went lacking throughout the Korean Warfare and was later reported to have died in a prisoner-of-war camp have been laid to relaxation Thursday, a number of months after being recognized.

U.S. Military Sgt. Alfred Sidney, 23, of Littleton, New Hampshire, was reported lacking in motion in Might 1951 after his unit was attacked close to Hangye, South Korea, the Protection POW/MIA Accounting Company stated. Two years later, a prisoner of battle survivor reported that Sidney had been a POW and died in July 1951 at a camp.

After the battle, unidentified stays have been buried on the Nationwide Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, the company stated.

In 2020, the company disinterred a number of the stays and despatched them to a laboratory for evaluation.

Sidney’s stays have been recognized in August by means of dental and anthropological evaluation, mitochondrial DNA evaluation and circumstantial proof, the company stated.

Sidney was the oldest of 5 kids. He had three sisters and a brother.

His niece, Carlene Hartford, instructed the Caledonian-File that the household acquired a name from the company in March.

“They have been trying to find Uncle Alfred and have been hoping for DNA from myself and anybody else within the household, particularly a male,” she stated. “I used to be capable of get your hands on considered one of my cousins, who was the son of Alfred’s solely brother, which was essential within the course of.”

Hartford additionally stated her mom, who handed away in 2013, was instrumental in retaining household information and ancestry paperwork.

Sidney had been learning for a profession in refrigeration on the time he was deployed to Korea. He was considered “all people’s large brother, everybody’s hero,” earlier than the battle, Hartford stated.

In 2010, Sidney was amongst 28 New Hampshire prisoners of battle who died in captivity who was honored with posthumous Purple Hearts. Sixteen of the troopers served in World Warfare II, and 12 served within the Korean Warfare.

His household is planning to go to the cemetery in Hawaii subsequent month, the place a rosette might be positioned subsequent to Sidney’s identify to point that he has been accounted for.

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