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BRIGGS KINNEY SICILIA
Captain · U.S. Army
August 26, 1937 – January 1, 1969
Service recordBriggs Kinney Sicilia, of Santa Rosa, California, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on January 1, 1969, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 35W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35W · Line 18
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Captain (CPT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Bomb Disposal Officer (9224)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- August 26, 1937
- Home of record
- Santa Rosa, California (Sonoma County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 1, 1969
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date January 1, 1969; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 35W, Line 18
- CLAIR LLOYD WESTLAKE JRPrivate First Class · January 1, 1969
- RODNEY JAMES TAKASHI YANOSergeant First Class · January 1, 1969
- LAWRENCE JOSEPH ZELLERSpecialist Four · January 1, 1969
- ARTHUR FRANCIS BARTLETTSergeant · January 2, 1969
Same unit, same day
- EDMUND JOSEPH SCHMIDTSpecialist Five · Panel 35W, Line 17
From Santa Rosa
- DANA GALE ROSELance Corporal · December 31, 1966
- DAVID MICHAEL CHANEYAirman First Class · April 16, 1967
- JAMES ALLEN BULLINGTONWarrant Officer 1 · May 6, 1967
- JOHN HERBERT SNYDERAirman Second Class · October 15, 1967
- GREGORY LYNN DUNNPrivate First Class · November 13, 1967
- RICKIE DAVIS FISHERPrivate · December 4, 1967
- JERRY DEAN SCHROEDERSpecialist Four · January 3, 1968
- JOSEPH MICHAEL RODRIGUESSpecialist Four · February 2, 1968
- ROBERT LEON SHARPLESSPrivate First Class · February 9, 1968
- FREDERICK WILLIAM HAASSpecialist Four · February 15, 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.