VIETNAM - MATUSH, THOMAS ERWIN

Matush, Thomas Erwin

VIETNAM - MATUSH, THOMAS ERWIN
MATUSH, THOMAS ERWIN

Rank: Private First Class

Unit: A Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment

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: Selected Service

Date of birth: 7-Sep-1945

Hometown: Madison, Wisconsin

Marital status: Never Married

Campaign: Vietnam Conflict

Entered service: 20-Oct-1965

Start of tour: 19-Aug-1966

Incident date: 12-Jan-1967

Date of casualty: 12-Jan-1967

Age at death: 21

Cause of Death: Hostile, died while missing. Killed In Action. Other explosive device. Unknown.
Thomas Erwin Matush was a passenger in a military vehicle which hit and detonated a hostile land mine.

Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PFC Frederick Thomas Carter
PFC Thomas Erwin Matush
SSG Billy Wayne McKeel

Location of fatality: Long Khanh, South Vietnam

Place of interment: Resurrection Cemetery, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial panel and row: 14E 016 (view Vietnam Veterans Memorial link in a new window)