Rank: Staff Sergeant
Unit: 919th Engineer Company, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 12B – Combat Engineer
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, Army of Occupation Medal for Germany, National Defense Service Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal Korea, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 16-Aug-1938
Hometown: Tarboro, North Carolina
Marital status: Married to Gudrun M. Cannon, one son
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 17-Jul-1956
Start of tour: 5-Dec-1968
Incident date: 6-Aug-1969
Date of casualty: 6-Aug-1969
Age at death: 30
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Unknown. Other causes.
George Elmer Cannon Sr was killed while on a combat operation when a mine detonated. / On mine sweep mission. Hit by fragments from hostile mine.
Location of fatality: Long Khanh, South Vietnam, YT 448 003
Place of interment: Edgecombe Memorial Park, Tarboro, North Carolina, USA
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