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EDWARD K MEYER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 13, 1948 – May 15, 1967
Service recordEdward K Meyer, of Normal, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 15, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 1
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 13, 1948
- Home of record
- Normal, Illinois (Mclean County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 15, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date May 15, 1967; ten of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 1
- DANIEL THOMAS KELLEYLance Corporal · May 15, 1967
- WOLFGANG EDWARD KRESSEPrivate · May 15, 1967
- JAMES THOMAS MANDLERPrivate First Class · May 15, 1967
- ROBERT LONGORIA SALINASSpecialist Four · May 15, 1967
From Normal
- FRANK RYAN ESCHPrivate First Class · March 22, 1966
- JAMES WALTER EDWARDSPrivate First Class · July 18, 1966
- DAVID RONALD PAGEStaff Sergeant · April 26, 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.