Rank: Staff Sergeant
Unit: H Company, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11E – Armor Crewman
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Korean Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, United Nations Service Medal for Korea
Badges: Combat Infantryman Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Note: 1st platoon
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 12-May-1932
Hometown: Kelso, Washington
Marital status: Married to Elizabeth Smith
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 20-Aug-1966
Incident date: 16-Jan-1967
Date of casualty: 16-Jan-1967
Age at death: 34
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Grenade. Multiple fragmentation wounds.
(Individual died of schrapnel to the head. Buttoned up in tank. Stuck head out of hatch, hit by schrapnel. Richard Quinn/Jack Keator-Witness)
Location of fatality: Binh Duong, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Cowlitz View Memorial Gardens, Kelso, Washington, USA
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