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DANIEL WELSH
Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 26, 1948 – April 28, 1969
Service recordDaniel Welsh, of Worth, Illinois, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 28, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 75
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 26, 1948
- Home of record
- Worth, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 28, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date April 28, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 26W, Line 75
- PETER MICHAEL STENGEMSpecialist Four · April 28, 1969
- AUSTIN TEETHPrivate First Class · April 28, 1969
- PHILLIP W WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · April 28, 1969
- RONALD KELLEY WILSONSpecialist Four · April 28, 1969
Same unit, same day
- HERBERT LEE MALONESergeant · Panel 26W, Line 72
From Worth
- JAMES LEONARD MATHEWSStaff Sergeant · May 10, 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.