Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: A Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11B – Infantryman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, Army Commendation Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 27-Jan-1950
Hometown: Garnerville, New York
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 6-Nov-1968
Start of tour: 3-May-1969
Incident date: 25-Mar-1970
Date of casualty: 25-Mar-1970
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Non-hostile, died of other causes. Other Accident. Other accident.
Walter Eugene Andrews Jr was killed while crewman at an artillery firing position when a mortar round he was firing prematurely detonated. / At Forward Support Base (FSB). Crewman on mortar firing H&I mission. Round exploded inside of tube.
Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 Walter Eugene Andrews Jr
SP4 Floyd Burnett Coates
SGT Joseph Wakefield Jr
Location of fatality: Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, XT 098 768
Place of interment: Saint Peters Cemetery, Haverstraw, New York, USA
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