Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Troop, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 91A – Medical Equipment Repairer
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Medical Badge
Unit awards: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Note: Medic attached to K Troop, 3/11 ACR
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 7-Feb-1949
Hometown: Eldridge, California
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 2-Jul-1969
Start of tour: 5-Dec-1969
Incident date: 26-Jun-1970
Date of casualty: 26-Jun-1970
Age at death: 21
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
Lawrence Lee Petersen was killed while at a night defensive position (NDP) when the area came under mortar attack by a hostile force. / At night defensive position (NDP). Received hostile mortar attack.
Four Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 Wesley Charles Howley Jr
PFC David John Moylan
SP4 Lawrence Lee Petersen
PFC Melvin Lewis Pullen
Location of fatality: Cambodia, XU 439 141
Place of interment: Saint Helena Cemetery, Saint Helena, California, USA
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