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BAXTER FRENCH ERVIN
Private First Class · U.S. Army
February 2, 1948 – August 21, 1967
Service recordBaxter French Ervin, of Albany, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 21, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 23
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)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- February 2, 1948
- Home of record
- Albany, Ohio (Athens County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 21, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date August 21, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 50 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 23
- PATRICK SHELDON COCHRANCorporal · August 21, 1967
- DAVID ANTHONY FRANCISPrivate First Class · August 21, 1967
- LEROY LYNN GERBERSergeant · August 21, 1967
- LUCION GILLISPIE JRLance Corporal · August 21, 1967
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD LEE BOBOSergeant · Panel 25E, Line 22
- THOMAS PETRAMALOSecond Lieutenant · Panel 25E, Line 25
From Albany
- DANNY LEWIS LASUREPrivate First Class · January 31, 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.