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EDGAR LEE TOMLINSON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 19, 1949 – September 12, 1968
Service recordEdgar Lee Tomlinson, of Williamstown, Kentucky, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 12, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · Line 42
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- August 19, 1949
- Home of record
- Williamstown, Kentucky (Grant County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 12, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
50 names on the Wall carry the date September 12, 1968; two of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 44W, Line 42
- DAVID MICHAEL SOWARDSPrivate First Class · September 12, 1968
- PHILIP LEONARD TANKPrivate First Class · September 12, 1968
- SAMUEL GILMORE UMSTOT JRCaptain · September 12, 1968
- WILLIAM WITTMANPrivate First Class · September 12, 1968
From Williamstown
- JOHNNIE DAVID KNIGHTSpecialist Four · December 31, 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.