Roy Dowling Brindley

Corporal Brindley enlisted Oct. 15 1940, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He served in Coast Artillery, Anti-Aircraft, Iceland and attained the rank of corporal, serving in Iceland for a time. On June 15, 1942, Brindley was declared missing in action after the Merchant Marine ship he was a passenger on was hit by an Axis torpedo and sunk. This ship would likely be the SS Cherokee, which sailed from Iceland on May 27, 1942, and was sunk by the German U-Boat U-87 off the Eastern Coast. Brindley's body was never recovered and a cenotaph in his honor lays at Boscobel Cemetery in Boscobel, Wisconsin. He is also immortalized at the Tablets of the Missing at East Coast Memorial at Battery Park in New York City.