VIETNAM - BRUM, PETER

Brum, Peter

VIETNAM - BRUM, PETER
BRUM, PETER

Rank: Sergeant

Unit: H Company, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment

MOS: 11E – Armor Crewman

Awards: Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal

Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge

Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device

Enlisted by: Regular

Date of birth: 15-Jun-1946

Hometown: Lansing, Michigan

Marital status: Married to Siegrid Brum

Campaign: Vietnam Conflict

Entered service: 27-Jan-1964

Start of tour: 19-Dec-1967

Incident date: 5-May-1968

Date of casualty: 5-May-1968

Age at death: 21

Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Peter Brum died from metal fragment wound received while on combat operation when engaged hostile force in firefight.  (Individual transported to 7th Surgical Hospital, Blackhorse base camp, Long Giao, where he expired.)

Four Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SGT Peter Brum
PFC Freddie Joe Cigar
SP4 Garland Gene Haley
PSGT Glenn Edward Nicholson

Location of fatality: Hua Nghia, South Vietnam

Place of interment: Evergreen Cemetery, Lansing, Michigan, USA

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial panel and row: 55E 004 (view Vietnam Veterans Memorial link in a new window)