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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Clarke Kemble Vickrey.

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CLARKE KEMBLE VICKREY

Private First Class · U.S. Army

October 14, 1950 – October 27, 1969

Service record

Clarke Kemble Vickrey, of Conroe, Texas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 27, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 125 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 17W · Line 125

Position of Panel 17W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
October 14, 1950
Home of record
Conroe, Texas (Montgomery County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 27, 1969
Age
19
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

12 names on the Wall carry the date October 27, 1969; five of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 17W, Line 125

Same unit, same day

From Conroe

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.