VIETNAM - CLEVELAND, ALBERT FRANKLIN

Cleveland, Albert Franklin

VIETNAM - CLEVELAND, ALBERT FRANKLIN
CLEVELAND, ALBERT FRANKLIN

Rank: Private, Pv-2 (Army), Pvt (Airforce, Marine Corps)

Unit: 919th Engineer Company, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment

Awards: 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: Regular

Date of birth: 6-Mar-1947

Hometown: Alexander City, Alabama

Marital status: Never Married

Campaign: Vietnam Conflict

Start of tour: 6-Aug-1966

Incident date: 17-Apr-1967

Date of casualty: 17-Apr-1967

Age at death: 20

Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
Albert Franklin Cleveland was in a convoy when hit by fragments from a hostile mortar round.

Four Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PVT Albert Franklin Cleveland
SP4 Royd Steve Kerley Jr
SP4 Donald Lynwood Martinez
PFC William James McCue

Location of fatality: Long Khanh, South Vietnam

Place of interment: Hillview Memorial Park and Mausoleum, Alexander City, Alabama, USA

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial panel and row: 18E 039 (view Vietnam Veterans Memorial link in a new window)