Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 91B – Medical Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Note: Medic attached to G Troop, 2/11 ACR
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 23-May-1947
Hometown: Columbia, South Carolina
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 16-Jan-1969
Start of tour: 22-Mar-1970
Incident date: 25-Apr-1970
Date of casualty: 25-Apr-1970
Age at death: 22
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Ralph Owen Hill was killed while on a combat operation when a booby trap detonated. / On ambush patrol mission. Detonated a booby trapped automatic ambush position.
Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 Michael George Bazel
SP4 Ralph Owen Hill
1LT Robert Raymond Lewis
Location of fatality: Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, XT 508 852
Place of interment: Elmwood Memorial Gardens, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
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