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CHARLES FREDERICK BIGHAM
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
April 6, 1946 – September 2, 1967
Service recordCharles Frederick Bigham, of Park Ridge, New Jersey, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 2, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 81 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 81
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armored Amphibian Crewman (1831)
- Born
- April 6, 1946
- Home of record
- Park Ridge, New Jersey (Bergen County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 2, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date September 2, 1967; ten of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Con Thien was under way. Through September and October 1967, North Vietnamese artillery across the Demilitarized Zone pounded the Marine outpost at Con Thien and the bases along the DMZ in Quảng Trị Province. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 81
- JERRY BELEYPrivate First Class · September 2, 1967
- BILLY JOE BENNETTPrivate First Class · September 2, 1967
- WILLIAM GEORGE BENNETTColonel · September 2, 1967
- JAMES GILBERT BOSLEYWarrant Officer 1 · September 2, 1967
From Park Ridge
- THOMAS ROBERT KYLE JRPrivate First Class · August 20, 1966
- THOMAS JOHN MALLONCorporal · March 3, 1967
- JEDH COLBY BARKERLance Corporal · September 21, 1967
- GLENN ELLSWORTH TRUEXPrivate First Class · August 26, 1969
- KEVIN RICHARD HUMPHREYLance Corporal · November 5, 1970
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.