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 (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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