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DAVID PAUL ROY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 7, 1949 – April 30, 1969
Service recordDavid Paul Roy, of Worcester, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 30, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 86
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Basic Infantryman (0300)
- Born
- August 7, 1949
- Home of record
- Worcester, Massachusetts (Worcester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 30, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date April 30, 1969; 22 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 86
- MICHAEL ESPY METOYERLance Corporal · April 30, 1969
- MICHAEL MIRANDAPrivate First Class · April 30, 1969
- JOHN WOODROW OSBORNEStaff Sergeant · April 30, 1969
- ESPIRIDION PEREZLance Corporal · April 30, 1969
From Worcester
- THOM THURSTON OSBORNPrivate First Class · January 28, 1966
- DAVID LAWRENCE DRAKE JRHospitalman · March 20, 1966
- ROBERT J DIREDAPrivate First Class · March 30, 1966
- PAUL RICHARD CAPUANOPrivate First Class · April 1, 1966
- DANIEL VICTOR MANZAROCorporal · April 1, 1966
- RALPH VICTOR RENAULD JRPrivate First Class · July 15, 1966
- WALTER STEPHAN MOONEYLance Corporal · September 5, 1966
- RICHARD CHARLES JOHNSONPrivate First Class · September 26, 1966
- RUSSELL PETER BOTTMaster Sergeant · December 2, 1966
- ALLAN PHILIP COLLAMORE JRLieutenant Commander · February 4, 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.