Rank: Sergeant First Class
Unit: F Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Legion of Merit, Bronze Star Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 29-Jan-1938 (corrected from 29-Aug-1938)
Hometown: Quitman, Georgia
Marital status: Married to Geneva E. Gaddis, one son
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: Unknown
Start of tour: 25-Feb-1967
Incident date: 24-Feb-1968
Date of casualty: 24-Feb-1968
Age at death: 29
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Unknown. Other causes.
Jonathan Royal Gaddis died from injury received while on combat operation when engaged hostile force. / (Individual transported to 24th Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh, where he later expired.)
Location of fatality: Binh Thuy, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Mount Olive Cemetery, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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