VIETNAM - TOLLIVER, LARRY LEE

Tolliver, Larry Lee

VIETNAM - TOLLIVER, LARRY LEE
TOLLIVER, LARRY LEE

Rank: Specialist 4

Unit: I Troop, 3rd 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: Presidential Unit Citation, Valorous Unit Award, Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device

Note: 1st platoon

Enlisted by: Selected Service

Date of birth: 2-Nov-1943

Hometown: Churchville, Maryland

Marital status: Married to Jane E. C. Tolliver, one daughter

Campaign: Vietnam Conflict

Start of tour: 21-Nov-1967

Incident date: 9-May-1968

Date of casualty: 9-May-1968

Age at death: 24

Cause of death: Hostile, died. Artillery/Mortar/Rocket. Artillery, rocket, or mortar.
Larry Lee Tolliver died from wounds received while at night defense position when hit by fragments from hostile anti-tank round.

Three Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 Joseph Nick D‘Ambra
SGT John Millard Schneider
SP4 Larry Lee Tolliver

Location of fatality: Hua Nghia, South Vietnam

Place of interment: Bel Air Memorial Gardens, Bel Air, Maryland, USA

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial panel and row: 57E 034 (view Vietnam Veterans Memorial link in a new window)