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BOBBY JOE LAWRENCE
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
May 28, 1932 – December 23, 1967
Service recordBobby Joe Lawrence, of Mayfield, Kentucky, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 23, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 54
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 First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- May 28, 1932
- Home of record
- Mayfield, Kentucky (Graves County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 23, 1967
- Age
- 35
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date December 23, 1967; six of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 54
- WALERIJA CHULCHATSCHINOWStaff Sergeant · December 24, 1967
- WILLIAM DOUGLAS DICKSONSecond Lieutenant · December 24, 1967
- DAVID MIDDLEKAUFFSergeant · December 24, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD E BOURNECaptain · Panel 32E, Line 49
- HUGH GREY WILLARDSergeant · Panel 32E, Line 50
- HOUSTON GRANT JRStaff Sergeant · Panel 32E, Line 51
- ROBERT RAYMOND JACKEMEYERMajor · Panel 32E, Line 51
From Mayfield
- ROBERT LOYD EMERSONPrivate · June 7, 1966
- WILLIAM GORDON FLEMING JRPrivate First Class · September 17, 1966
- JOE EDD HESTERSpecialist Four · February 9, 1969
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.