Rank: Private First Class
Unit: L Troop, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, 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: 1-Nov-1950
Hometown: Rochester, New York
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 20-Jan-1970
Start of tour: 21-Jun-1970
Incident date: 25-Oct-1970
Date of casualty: 25-Oct-1970
Age at death: 19
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Dennis Charles Cannan was killed while on a combat operation when a booby trap detonated. / On combat operation, detonated hostile booby trap. / On reconnaissance patrol with two other members of his unit. One of the men stepped on a trip wire which detonated an anti-personnel mine set by the Viet Cong.
Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PFC Dennis Charles Cannan
SP4 Timothy Robert Ownbey
SP4 Kim William Widmer
Location of fatality: Binh Duong, South Vietnam, XT 972 391
Place of interment: Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester, New York, USA
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