Rank: Private First Class
Unit: 919th Engineer Company, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 05B – Radio Operator
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Start of tour: 13-Apr-1967
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 7-Dec-1945
Hometown: Huntersville, North Carolina
Marital status: Married to Brenda S. Kelly
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 20-May-1966
Start of tour: 13-Apr-1967
Incident date: 15-Jul-1967
Date of casualty: 15-Jul-1967
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Harry Allen Kelly was passenger in military vehicle when vehicle hit a mine.
Four Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
MAJ Donald Jack Crocker
MSG Everett August Herritz
PFC Harry Allen Kelly
PFC Donald Paskowicz
Location of fatality: Phuoc Tuy, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Bethel Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Cornelius, North Carolina, USA
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