VIETNAM - HARDING, CHARLES CLIFFORD

Harding, Charles Clifford Jr

VIETNAM - HARDING, CHARLES CLIFFORD
HARDING, CHARLES CLIFFORD JR

Rank: Corporal

Unit: Howitzer Battery, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment

MOS: 13A – Field Artillery Basic

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: 20-Aug-1946

Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland

Marital status: Never Married

Campaign: Vietnam Conflict

Entered service: 5-Nov-1965

Start of tour: 20-Aug-1966

Incident date: 9-Feb-1967

Date of casualty: 9-Feb-1967

Age at death: 20

Cause of death: Hostile, died. Drowning. Drowned, suffocated.
Charles Clifford Harding Jr was passenger in a military vehicle on night road movement when vehicle went off bridge into water.

Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
CPL Charles Clifford Harding Jr
1LT Michael Fredrick Scott

Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam

Place of interment: Baltimore National Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial panel and row: 15E 011 (view Vietnam Veterans Memorial link in a new window)