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Sgt Robert J. Goldsworthy was employed at the Vickers Incorporated.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced on 18 September 2025 that Sgt Robert J. Goldsworthy has been accounted for.

On 14 December 1944, the 1st Battalion of the 320th Infantry Regiment crossed the Blies River, and fighting continued in nearby Bliesbruck until its capture on 16 or 17 December. Historical records indicate that by 17 December some elements of the regiment had reached high ground northeast of Reinheim, Germany. Goldsworthy was killed in action that day during combat in this area. His remains were not recovered at the time.

Beginning in 1946, the American Graves Registration Command conducted investigations and recoveries throughout the Saar River region, but none of the remains found were associated with Goldsworthy, and he was declared nonrecoverable. In April 1945, an American Graves Registration Command team recovered a set of remains from Gersheim, Germany. The remains could not be identified with the technology available and were interred as an Unknown.

In 2023, the Department of Defense and the American Battle Monuments Commission exhumed these remains and transferred them to a DPAA Laboratory for analysis. There, scientists used modern forensic techniques to identify Goldsworthy.

Funeral arrangements are pending (information added January 2026).