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DAVID BOUNDS HERRING
Corporal · U.S. Army
June 30, 1948 – May 25, 1969
Service recordDavid Bounds Herring, of Mobile, Alabama, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on May 25, 1969, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 103 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 103
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- June 30, 1948
- Home of record
- Mobile, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 25, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date May 25, 1969. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 75 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 103
- RONNIE ELLIS HOGBINSergeant First Class · May 25, 1969
- WESLEY GENE ICEPrivate First Class · May 25, 1969
- DONALD WILLIAM IDEFirst Lieutenant · May 25, 1969
- GARY MCCOLLOUGHCorporal · May 25, 1969
From Mobile
- ANDREW C MITCHELL IIICaptain · April 8, 1963
- DAVID RUDOLPH DICKENSFirst Sergeant · November 1, 1965
- EDDIE LEE HILL JRCorporal · November 4, 1965
- SHERMAN ELDRIDGE OTISPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- NATHANIEL EARL CARTER IIISergeant · November 25, 1965
- ROBERT EDWARD BEXLEYPrivate First Class · January 30, 1966
- ROBERT LOUIS BEATONSergeant · February 22, 1966
- JOSEPH EMMETT LILLEYPrivate First Class · May 14, 1966
- JAMES DWIGHT NEWCOMBLance Corporal · July 17, 1966
- TIMOTHY SCOTT DAVIESLance Corporal · July 20, 1966
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.