Rank: Private First Class
Unit: Howitzer Battery, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 82C – Field Artillery Surveyor
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Note: Forward Observer attached to C Troop, 1/11 ACR
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 16-Jan-1950
Hometown: Quincy, Illinois
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 7-Aug-1969
Start of tour: 2-Feb-1970
Incident date: 26-Apr-1970
Date of casualty: 26-Apr-1970
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
Bruce Harold Bardon was killed while at a night defensive position when the area came under attack by a hostile force. / At night defensive position (NDP). Received hostile mortar attack.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PFC Bruce Harold Bardon
PFC Ernest Leroy Thorson
Location of fatality: Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, XT 437 767
Place of interment: Greenmount Cemetery, Quincy, Illinois, USA
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