Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: 919th Engineer Company, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 12B – Combat Engineer
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Enlisted by: Regular
Date of birth: 19-Jan-1948
Hometown: Orange, Texas
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Start of tour: 4-May-1968
Incident date: 19-Oct-1968
Date of casualty: 19-Oct-1968
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Hostile, died. Small Arms Fire. Gun or small arms fire.
Peter Garland Thompson died from wound received while on combat operation when engaged hostile force in firefight. / (Individual transported to 93rd Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh.)
(Individual transported to 93rd Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh, where he expired.)
Location of fatality: Binh Duong, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Magnolia Memorial Garden, Orange, Texas, USA
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