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BEN WHITE
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 19, 1942 – July 10, 1967
Service recordBen White, of Sumter, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 10, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 47
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 19, 1942
- Home of record
- Sumter, South Carolina (Sumter County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 10, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date July 10, 1967; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 47
- HARRY DIWAIN SPIERPrivate First Class · July 10, 1967
- JESUS M TORRESSergeant · July 10, 1967
- JAMES CRAIG WEARSPrivate First Class · July 10, 1967
- LAWRENCE ALLEN WHITFIELDSpecialist Four · July 10, 1967
Same unit, same day
- DONALD ROY LASTSpecialist Four · Panel 23E, Line 43
From Sumter
- ADHERENE LOUIS HAINESSpecialist Four · October 5, 1965
- HAROLD MCRAE SMITHPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- LELAND EMANUEL HAMMONDLance Corporal · October 11, 1966
- ROBERT HENRY STEWARTStaff Sergeant · October 29, 1966
- ROBERT CAIN JRSpecialist Four · November 24, 1966
- TERRY LYNN ANTONPrivate First Class · April 8, 1967
- DAVID NATHANIEL GREEN JRSecond Lieutenant · July 24, 1967
- WALLACE GOURLEY HYNDS JRColonel · August 2, 1967
- CARL MCFADDEN JRPrivate First Class · March 26, 1968
- JIMMIE LEE HARVINCorporal · November 9, 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.