Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: A Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, Army Commendation Medal with Valor Device, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Presidential Unit Citation, Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Start of tour: 8-Sep-1969
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 3-Jun-1949
Hometown: Connellsville, Pennsylvania
Next of Kin: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Incident date: 19-Jun-1970
Date of casualty: 19-Jun-1970
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Small Arms Fire. Gun or small arms fire. Individual was killed while on a combat operation when a hostile force was encountered. Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident: SP4 Francis Ray Addis, 1LT Robert Knapp Henderson Jr and SP4 Larry Robert Ladd.
Location of fatality: Cambodia
Place of interment: Hill Grove Cemetery, Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA
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