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ANDREW CLAYTON ROSE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 13, 1949 – June 3, 1969
Service recordAndrew Clayton Rose, of Burlington Flats, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 3, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23W · Line 57
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- November 13, 1949
- Home of record
- Burlington Flats, New York (Otsego County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 3, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date June 3, 1969; three of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23W, Line 57
- JOSE GARCIA JRLance Corporal · June 3, 1969
- BILLIE WAYNE REEDPrivate · June 3, 1969
- DONALD HAROLD RICHARDSONChief Warrant Officer 2 · June 3, 1969
- ALLEN HARVEY ROBERTSONWarrant Officer 1 · June 3, 1969
Same unit, same day
- CLEMENT VALENCIA JRPrivate First Class · Panel 23W, Line 60
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.