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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Bernard Erroyl Clare.

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BERNARD ERROYL CLARE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

December 16, 1940 – May 12, 1966

Service record

Bernard Erroyl Clare, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 12, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7E · Line 51

Position of Panel 7E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
December 16, 1940
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 12, 1966
Age
25
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

28 names on the Wall carry the date May 12, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 49 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 7E, Line 51

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.