Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: D Company, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Presidential Unit Citation, Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 15-Aug-1948
Hometown: Muskegon, Michigan
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 11-Nov-1965
Start of tour: 25-Oct-1967
Incident date: 30-May-1968
Date of casualty: 30-May-1968
Age at death: 19
Cause of death: Hostile, Died. Small Arms Fire. Gun or small arms fire.
Gerald Alan Collis died from wound received while on combat operation when engaged hostile force in firefight.
Five Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 Gerald Alan Collis
SP4 James Davis
SGT Joseph Harold Graham
PFC George Francis Long
SGT John David Pape
Location of fatality: Hua Nghia, South Vietnam, XT 422 128
Place of interment: Saint Mary‘s Cemetery, Muskegon, Michigan, USA
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