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BALFOUR OLIVER LYTTON JR
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 22, 1944 – March 25, 1968
Service recordBalfour Oliver Lytton JR, of Rockville, Maryland, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 25, 1968, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 20
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Radio Operator (05B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- May 22, 1944
- Home of record
- Rockville, Maryland (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
64 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1968; he was the only one lost in Darlac Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
He died in Darlac Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 46E, Line 20
- ALFRED FRANK LANCESergeant · March 25, 1968
- FRANK JAMES MALSEED JRPrivate First Class · March 25, 1968
- JOHN MICHAEL MIHALOVICHCorporal · March 25, 1968
- FRANKLIN EDWARD MOORESergeant First Class · March 25, 1968
From Rockville
- FRANCES F NOVELLOSergeant · September 3, 1965
- GERALD LEE CROSBYPrivate First Class · June 28, 1966
- STEVE WESTLEL HARRISPrivate First Class · August 15, 1966
- TOMMY EUGENE DICKERSONPrivate First Class · May 3, 1967
- ROBERT ROXBURGH GROOMCorporal · November 11, 1967
- AUSTIN RICHARD VONKLEISTSergeant First Class · December 16, 1967
- ROBERT DAVID MASONSeaman · December 21, 1967
- JAMES BUCKNER HALLCorporal · January 4, 1968
- ROBERT WILLIAM ABERNATHYSpecialist Four · March 4, 1968
- ROBERT EDWIN MENTZER JRPrivate First Class · April 1, 1968
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.