VIETNAM - HILL, RALPH OWEN

Hill, Ralph Owen

VIETNAM - HILL, RALPH OWEN
HILL, RALPH OWEN

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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Vietnam Veterans Memorial panel and row: 11W 050 (view Vietnam Veterans Memorial link in a new window)