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CECIL A MEARES
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
December 10, 1929 – September 23, 1967
Service recordCecil A Meares, of Lumberton, North Carolina, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 23, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 37. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 3
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Materials Quality Specialists (51G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 10, 1929
- Home of record
- Lumberton, North Carolina (Robeson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 23, 1967
- Age
- 37
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date September 23, 1967. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 27E, Line 3
- LARRY JAMES HIGHPrivate First Class · September 23, 1967
- LASZLO HOLOVITSStaff Sergeant · September 23, 1967
- ARNOLD GARY KRAVITZAirman Second Class · September 23, 1967
- PAUL LEE PRICECorporal · September 23, 1967
- ROBERT ERNEST SIPESpecialist Five · September 23, 1967
From Lumberton
- DAVID THOMPSONSergeant First Class · January 27, 1964
- FRANKLIN EUGENE HOSLERSergeant · April 4, 1966
- CHARLES EDWARD MCRAESpecialist Four · June 19, 1966
- TIMOTHY COLEMAN PATTERSONSergeant · April 22, 1967
- HARRY L ALWAYFirst Lieutenant · July 13, 1967
- GLENN DIRK KERNSPrivate First Class · November 11, 1967
- HUGHIE OXENDINEStaff Sergeant · December 25, 1967
- LEE ANDREW BOWDENSergeant · April 6, 1968
- DONALD FRANK MCKENZIEStaff Sergeant · December 10, 1968
- HARRY HUTCHISON GIBSONFirst Lieutenant · March 21, 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.