Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: F Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11B – Infantryman
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 12-Feb-1940
Hometown: Phenix City, Alabama
Marital status: Married to Cymbalene A. Ingram, one daughter
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 20-Aug-1966
Incident date: 4-Mar-1967
Date of casualty: 4-Mar-1967
Age at death: 27
Cause of death: Hostile, died while missing. Unknown. Other explosive device.
Charlie Bernard Ingram Jr was passenger in a military vehicle on ambush patrol when vehicle hit a hostile mine.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 Charlie Bernard Ingram Jr
SP4 Frank Everett Reynolds
Location of fatality: Long An, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Fort Benning Post Cemetery, Fort Benning, Georgia, USA
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