Corporal Beek was a member of Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in North Korea on December 1, 1950. His remains were not recovered. 

Through the work of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the remains of Corporal Eldert John Beek were accounted for in 2020. His name is permanently inscribed on the “Courts of the Missing” at the Honolulu Memorial.