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CHARLES ROBERT COILEY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 27, 1952 – November 30, 1970
Service recordCharles Robert Coiley, of Old Town, Maine, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 30, 1970, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 6W, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 6W · Line 97
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- January 27, 1952
- Home of record
- Old Town, Maine (Penobscot County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 30, 1970
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date November 30, 1970; two of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In November 1970, 347 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 6W, Line 97
- ROBERT EARL YOUNGPetty Officer Second Class · November 29, 1970
- CLARENCE EUGENE BAKERSergeant · November 30, 1970
- ROBERT ARTHUR BOJANEKSpecialist Four · November 30, 1970
- DOUGLAS STEPHEN BRIDGERSPrivate First Class · November 30, 1970
Same unit, same day
- PATRICK JAMES PAULICHPrivate · Panel 6W, Line 99
From Old Town
- WALTER LOUIS HALLCaptain · June 10, 1965
- RAYMOND RONALD SPROULStaff Sergeant · February 23, 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.