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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Donald Richard Lumley.

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DONALD RICHARD LUMLEY

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

December 30, 1936 – March 4, 1966

Service record

Donald Richard Lumley, of Knoxville, Tennessee, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 4, 1966, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 107 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 5E · Line 107

Position of Panel 5E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Officer (I) (0302)
Born
December 30, 1936
Home of record
Knoxville, Tennessee (Knox County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 4, 1966
Age
29
Province
Quang Ngai
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

71 names on the Wall carry the date March 4, 1966; 42 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 5E, Line 107

From Knoxville

All 76 names from Knoxville →

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.