Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: E Troop, 2nd 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: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 31-Mar-1947
Hometown: Ft Worth, Texas
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 28-Jun-1967
Entered service: 25-Jan-1967
Incident date: 3-Feb-1968
Date of casualty: 3-Feb-1968
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Don Ray Gilbert died from injury received while on combat operation when unit engaged hostile force in firefight. / (Individual transported to 24th Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh, where he later expired.)
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 Don Ray Gilbert
SP4 Larry Hugh Jones
Location of fatality: Bien Hoa, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Cedar Hill Memorial Park, Arlington, Texas, USA
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