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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