Rank: Private First Class
Unit: Howitzer Battery, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 13A – Field Artillery Basic
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
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 30-Sep-1948
Hometown: Irving, Texas
Marital status: Married to Sherry A. Bone
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 25-Mar-1968
Start of tour: 4-Oct-1968
Incident date: 18-Dec-1968
Date of casualty: 19-Dec-1968
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died of wounds. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar. Individual died from wounds received while at command post when area came under hostile mortar attack. He was admitted to a military hospital (24th Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh), placed on the Very Serious Injury (VSI) list and later expired.
Five Blackhorse troopers died as a result of this incident:
PFC Robert Lynn Bone
SP4 Norman Harvey Clark
SP4 Ricky Fay Cossey
PFC Charles Marion Dumdei
PFC Ronald Lee Hovis
Location of fatality: Bien Hoa, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Oak Grove Memorial Gardens, Irving, Texas, USA
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