Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Troop, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 05C – Radio Teletype 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
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 14-Sep-1946
Hometown: Charlotte, North Carolina
Marital status: Married to Rebecca J. Kerley
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 18-Aug-1965
Start of tour: 20-Aug-1966
Incident date: 17-Apr-1967
Date of casualty: 17-Apr-1967
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Royd Steve Kerley Jr was in convoy when hit by fragments from a hostile mortar round.
Four Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PVT Albert Franklin Cleveland
SP4 Royd Steve Kerley Jr
SP4 Donald Lynwood Martinez
PFC William James McCue
Location of fatality: Long Khanh, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Sunset Memory Gardens, Mint Hill, North Carolina, USA
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