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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Edmund Bagwel Scarborough.

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EDMUND BAGWEL SCARBOROUGH

Captain · U.S. Army

July 7, 1940 – May 10, 1968

Service record

Edmund Bagwel Scarborough, of Belle Haven, Virginia, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on May 10, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 58E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 58E · Line 15

Position of Panel 58E 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. Army
Rank
Captain (CPT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
July 7, 1940
Home of record
Belle Haven, Virginia (Accomack County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 10, 1968
Age
27
Province
Gia Dinh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

72 names on the Wall carry the date May 10, 1968; eight of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 115 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 58E, Line 15

Same unit, same day

From Belle Haven

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.