Rank: Private First Class
Unit: B Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 11D – Armor Reconnaissance Specialist
Awards: Bronze Star 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: 17-Oct-1951
Hometown: Union Lake, Michigan
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 29-Sep-1969
Start of tour: 23-Mar-1970
Incident date: 28-Jul-1970
Date of casualty: 28-Jul-1970
Age at death: 18
Cause of death: Non-hostile, died of illness/injury. Other Accident. Other accident.
Timothy Allen White was killed while a passenger on a military vehicle on a military mission when the weapon of another vehicle was accidentally discharged striking his vehicle. / Timothy Allen White was a crewman on a tank moving out of night defensive position (NDP). Another tank accidentally fired and hit this tank and another one when main gun fired.
Four Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SP4 George Fredrick Beeler
1LT Robert Norris Chinquina
PFC Dickie Carson Curry
PFC Timothy Allen White
Location of fatality: Bien Hoa, South Vietnam, YT 220 094
Place of interment: Commerce Village Burying Ground, Commerce, Michigan, USA
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