Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: I Troop, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Meritorious Unit Citation, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 1-May-1945
Hometown: Timmonsville, South Carolina
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 23-Aug-1966
Incident date: 12-Jun-1967
Date of casualty: 12-Jun-1967
Age at death: 22
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Matthew Devanughan Kennedy was driver of a military vehicle on combat operation when the vehicle was hit by a hostile anti-tank round.
Location of fatality: Phuoc Tuy, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Florence National Cemetery, Florence, South Carolina, USA
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