Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 91B – Medical 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 Medical Badge
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Start of tour: 22-Nov-1967
Note: Medic Attached to E Troop, 2/11 ACR
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 2-Sep-1948
Hometown: Abilene, Texas
Next of Kin: Married to Helen G. Allison
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Incident date: 9-Jul-1968
Date of casualty: 9-Jul-1968
Age at death: 19
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds. Individual died from wound received while on combat operation when hostile force was engaged in firefight.
Location of fatality: Hua Nghia, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Elmwood Memorial Park, Abilene, Texas, USA
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