Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 63C – General Vehicle Repairman
Awards: 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: 23-Jan-1943
Hometown: Tazewell, Virginia
Marital status: Married to Brigitte M. Martinez, one son
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 27-Nov-1964
Start of tour: 20-Aug-1966
Incident date: 17-Apr-1967
Date of casualty: 17-Apr-1967
Age at death: 24
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
Donald Lynwood Martinez was in a convoy when the convoy came under hostile mortar attack.
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: Maplewood Cemetery, Tazewell, Virginia, USA
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