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CLINTON MONROE GAULT JR
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
October 17, 1939 – October 28, 1968
Service recordClinton Monroe Gault JR, of Eloy, Arizona, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 28, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 40W, Line 49 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40W · Line 49
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Born
- October 17, 1939
- Home of record
- Eloy, Arizona (Pinal County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 28, 1968
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date October 28, 1968; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1968, 821 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 40W, Line 49
- WILLIAM LUEDKESergeant · October 28, 1968
- GERALD MARTINPrivate First Class · October 28, 1968
- LUTHER ONEIL MCCORMICKStaff Sergeant · October 28, 1968
- CHARLES STANLEY PETTERSONPrivate First Class · October 28, 1968
From Eloy
- SISTO BOJORQUEZ BOJORQUEZPrivate · January 9, 1968
- JAMES CHARLES DAN SIMMONSLance Corporal · September 19, 1968
- LARRY ROBERT GARCIASpecialist Four · May 18, 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.