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DUNCAN BALFOUR SLEIGH
Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
April 13, 1945 – November 6, 1968
Service recordDuncan Balfour Sleigh, of Marblehead, Massachusetts, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 6, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · 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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Basic Infantry Officer (0301)
- Born
- April 13, 1945
- Home of record
- Marblehead, Massachusetts (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 6, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date November 6, 1968; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 30
- RAYMOND GENE SKAGGSStaff Sergeant · November 6, 1968
- RAFAEL SOLERLance Corporal · November 6, 1968
- JAMES MICHAEL TIMMONSPrivate First Class · November 6, 1968
- FREDRICK RAY TURNERLance Corporal · November 6, 1968
From Marblehead
- EDGAR SNOW DOLIBERSpecialist Six · May 4, 1966
- GERALD EDWARD ISAACSONSpecialist Four · October 8, 1966
- HENRY ELMER MACCANNColonel · March 28, 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.