Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: G Troop, 2nd 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: Regular
Date of birth: 22-Oct-1945
Hometown: Charlotte, North Carolina
Marital status: Married to Bellivina C. Nance, one daughter
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 14-May-1968
Start of tour: 3-Jun-1968
Incident date: 24-Aug-1968
Date of casualty: 24-Aug-1968
Age at death: 22
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
Lewis Sylvester Nance died from wounds received while gunner of a military vehicle on combat operation when hit by fragments from a hostile anti-tank round.
Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
1LT Leslie Edmund Hines III
SP4 Lewis Sylvester Nance
PFC Ivan Lorenza Vincent Jr
Location of fatality: Binh Long, South Vietnam, XU 764 100*
Place of interment: York Memorial Park, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
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