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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