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DAVID LE ROY FARR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 28, 1942 – November 19, 1967
Service recordDavid Le Roy Farr, of Allegany, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 19, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 30E, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30E · Line 30
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)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- September 28, 1942
- Home of record
- Allegany, New York (Cattaraugus County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 19, 1967
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
77 names on the Wall carry the date November 19, 1967; six of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 91 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30E, Line 30
- ROBERT EARL MILLERSpecialist Four · November 19, 1967
- PEDRO RODRIGUEZ MONTANEZPrivate First Class · November 19, 1967
- DONALD THOMAS MORGANPrivate First Class · November 19, 1967
- CHARLES CARTER NELSONFirst Lieutenant · November 19, 1967
Same unit, same day
- FREDDIE JAMES BENJAMINPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 22
- CLARENCE LOUIS HARLOWPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 26
- JOSEPH VINCENT ZELINSKIPrivate First Class · Panel 30E, Line 36
From Allegany
- CARL RICHARD WENZELPrivate First Class · April 25, 1965
- LARRY RONALD HAVERSLance Corporal · October 29, 1967
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.