Rank: Private First Class
Unit: C Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11E – Armor Crewman
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: Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 24-Nov-1949
Hometown: St Louis, Missouri
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 26-Sep-1969
Start of tour: 23-Jun-1970
Incident date: 23-Aug-1970
Date of casualty: 23-Aug-1970
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
Robert Dawson Rother Jr was killed while the driver of a military vehicle on a combat operation when a mine detonated. / Driver on tank on reconnaissance mission. Vehicle detonated hostile mine. / Driver on tank on reconnaissance mission. Vehicle detonated hostile mine.
Two Blackhorse troopers died as a result of this incident:
SP5 Chester Roy Reese Jr
PFC Robert Dawson Rother Jr
Location of fatality: Long Khanh, South Vietnam, YT 294 283
Place of interment: Sunset Memorial Park and Mausoleum, Affton, Missouri, USA
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