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BAXTER HARRISON ELLIS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 22, 1946 – August 19, 1967
Service recordBaxter Harrison Ellis, of Ca-Vel, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 19, 1967, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 16
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)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- January 22, 1946
- Home of record
- Ca-Vel, North Carolina (Person County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 19, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date August 19, 1967; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 25E, Line 16
- THOMAS EDWARD IRWINSpecialist Five · August 19, 1967
- WALLACE MICHAEL JACKSONSpecialist Four · August 19, 1967
- RANDALL GORDON JACOBSpecialist Five · August 19, 1967
- MICHAEL BOMBERGER KOONSSpecialist Four · August 19, 1967
From Ca-Vel
- CONNIE MACK GRAVITTECaptain · June 17, 1966
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.