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DAVID ERNEST GARDNER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 29, 1948 – December 11, 1968
Service recordDavid Ernest Gardner, of Walpole, New Hampshire, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 11, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 2
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- May 29, 1948
- Home of record
- Walpole, New Hampshire (Cheshire County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 11, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
47 names on the Wall carry the date December 11, 1968; four of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 75 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 2
- MARTIN CHARLES FRITZPrivate First Class · December 11, 1968
- RUSSELL DALE GALBRAITHMajor · December 11, 1968
- BILLY LEE GOINSPrivate First Class · December 11, 1968
- WILLIE LEE HALL JRSpecialist Four · December 11, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JUAN CORTES-CASTILLOSergeant · Panel 36W, Line 1
- MARTIN CHARLES FRITZPrivate First Class · Panel 36W, Line 2
- WENCESLAO ROSAS MATIAS JRCorporal · Panel 36W, Line 4
From Walpole
- ROBERT QUENTIN ROENTSCHSpecialist Four · February 19, 1966
- GARY WAYNE BALLSpecialist Four · July 16, 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.