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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