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CHARLES EDWARD ROBERTSON
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
October 15, 1942 – November 19, 1967
Service recordCharles Edward Robertson, of Charleston, West Virginia, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 19, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 32 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 32
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3 BN 7 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- October 15, 1942
- Home of record
- Charleston, West Virginia (Kanawha County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 19, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
77 names on the Wall carry the date November 19, 1967; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3 BN 7 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30E, Line 32
- JIMMY DON ROBERSONPrivate First Class · November 19, 1967
- RONALD NELSON RODREICKSecond Lieutenant · November 19, 1967
- WILLIAM ALLEN ROSSPrivate First Class · November 19, 1967
- DONALD EUGENE SMITHFirst Lieutenant · November 19, 1967
From Charleston
- CHARLES EDWIN HUDDLE JRCaptain · March 21, 1965
- JOHN ROBERT BALLFirst Lieutenant · June 19, 1965
- TIMOTHY MORGAN BLAKESecond Lieutenant · November 15, 1965
- CURTIS ESTILL BINIONFirst Lieutenant · July 5, 1966
- WILLIAM OMER HILLSpecialist Five · December 11, 1966
- JOHN LEE STRICKLANDPrivate First Class · January 11, 1967
- CHARLES EDWARD BOGGSPrivate First Class · March 6, 1967
- EDWARD WALLACE BROWN JRSergeant First Class · May 1, 1967
- JAMES ROBERT SIMMONSStaff Sergeant · October 14, 1967
- ALBERT MORGAN CARWITHENSergeant · January 5, 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.