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CLARENCE CREAGHEAD
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 1, 1948 – May 22, 1969
Service recordClarence Creaghead, of Bessemer, Alabama, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 22, 1969, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 74 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 74
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 1, 1948
- Home of record
- Bessemer, Alabama (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 22, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date May 22, 1969; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 74
- JOHNNY LEON BRYANTCaptain · May 22, 1969
- RALPH WILSON CONNERS JRSpecialist Four · May 22, 1969
- CALVIN EDWARD COOKECorporal · May 22, 1969
- JOHN LEE CROYPrivate First Class · May 22, 1969
From Bessemer
- ROY MARVIN HITT JRSergeant · November 4, 1965
- CORDELL SPENCERSpecialist Four · November 8, 1965
- MACK ARTHUR WAREPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- ROBERT HENRY LAGRANDStaff Sergeant · January 29, 1966
- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS OAKESPrivate First Class · August 25, 1966
- ELIJAH DANIEL JRStaff Sergeant · October 22, 1966
- MATTHEW WAREStaff Sergeant · November 17, 1966
- THOMAS C EVANSStaff Sergeant · May 7, 1967
- WILLIAM HORACE JOHNSON JRLance Corporal · June 12, 1967
- LOUIS COLSTON JRPrivate First Class · October 14, 1967
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.