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CLARENCE LEON ROUSE
Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 16, 1945 – March 11, 1969
Service recordClarence Leon Rouse, of Blackwell, Oklahoma, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 11, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 14
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- July 16, 1945
- Home of record
- Blackwell, Oklahoma (Kay County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 11, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
70 names on the Wall carry the date March 11, 1969; four of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 14
- CHARLES DAVID ROGERSCaptain · March 11, 1969
- ROBERT NED SAULSChief Warrant Officer 2 · March 11, 1969
- RICHARD MARTIN SCHMIDTPrivate First Class · March 11, 1969
- JOHN EDWARD SHIRAKAPrivate First Class · March 11, 1969
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL GEORGE ALLENDORFCorporal · Panel 29W, Line 3
- JAMES EDWARD FOWLERSpecialist Four · Panel 29W, Line 7
- RICHARD HAROLD HAAG JRSpecialist Five · Panel 29W, Line 8
- RICHARD MARTIN SCHMIDTPrivate First Class · Panel 29W, Line 14
- DANIEL WAYNE TINDLESpecialist Four · Panel 29W, Line 16
From Blackwell
- JOHNNIE WAYNE CARDWELLPrivate First Class · December 2, 1966
- GARY MAX WELCHLance Corporal · April 23, 1967
- RONALD WAYNE SIMMONSSpecialist Four · September 2, 1967
- RODNEY PHILLIP TROYERSpecialist Four · February 8, 1968
- DENNIS IRVIN DAYSergeant · November 3, 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.