Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: C Troop, 1st 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: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 31-Oct-1944
Hometown: Presque Isle, Maine
Marital status: Married to Dolores R. Lovley
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 19-Mar-1969
Start of tour: 16-Aug-1969
Incident date: 2-Mar-1970
Date of casualty: 2-Mar-1970
Age at death: 25
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Thomas Grant Lovley was killed while on a combat operation when a hostile force was encountered. / On ambush patrol. Engaged hostile force in firefight.
Location of fatality: Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, XT 382 901
Place of interment: Fairmount Cemetery, Presque Isle, Maine, USA
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