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: 10-Sep-1945
Hometown: Maple Shade, New Jersey
Marital status: Married to Mary A. Moorhouse
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 6-Feb-1969
Start of tour: 5-Jul-1969
Incident date: 12-Mar-1970
Date of casualty: 12-Mar-1970
Age at death: 24
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
William Curtis Moorhouse was killed while at a night defensive position when the area came under attack by a hostile force. / At night defensive position (NDP). Engaged hostile force in firefight.
Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 Garlin Jeris Henderson Jr
SGT Jack William Messer
SP4 William Curtis Moorhouse
Location of fatality: Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, XT 415 857
Place of interment: Mount Holly Cemetery, Mount Holly, New Jersey, USA
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