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DAVID NEWTON CUMMINGS
Hospitalman · U.S. Navy
December 15, 1947 – May 14, 1967
Service recordDavid Newton Cummings, of Rogue River, Oregon, served as a Hospitalman in the U.S. Navy. He died on May 14, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 19E, Line 117 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19E · Line 117
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. Navy
- Rank
- Hospitalman (HN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Hospital Corpsman (HM)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV
- Born
- December 15, 1947
- Home of record
- Rogue River, Oregon (Jackson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 14, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date May 14, 1967; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 19E, Line 117
- WINFIELD SCOTT FLINTLance Corporal · May 14, 1967
- JOSEPH HUBERT GOINGS JRPrivate First Class · May 14, 1967
- FRANK LYNN GUTHRIEPrivate First Class · May 14, 1967
- JOSEPH CARLTON HAILEYCaptain · May 14, 1967
From Rogue River
- AUSTIN CLIFFORD LANELance Corporal · March 3, 1969
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.