VIETNAM - CARTER, FREDERICK THOMAS

Carter, Frederick Thomas

VIETNAM - CARTER, FREDERICK THOMAS
CARTER, FREDERICK THOMAS

Rank: Private First Class

Unit: A Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment

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

Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device

Enlisted by: Selected Service

Date of birth: 22-Jul-1946

Hometown: Smithfield, Rhode Island

Marital status: Never Married

Campaign: Vietnam Conflict

Entered service: 3-Nov-1965

Start of tour: 19-Aug-1966

Incident date: 12-Jan-1967

Date of casualty: 12-Jan-1967

Age at death: 20

Cause of death: Hostile, died while missing. Unknown. Other explosive device.
Frederick Thomas Carter was passenger in a military vehicle which hit and detonated a hostile land mine.

Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PFC Frederick Thomas Carter
PFC Thomas Erwin Matush
SSG Billy Wayne McKeel

Location of fatality: Long Khanh, South Vietnam

Place of interment: Slatersville Cemetery, North Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial panel and row: 14E 014 (view Vietnam Veterans Memorial link in a new window)