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EDWARD KENNETH FERGUSON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 26, 1944 – July 4, 1967
Service recordEdward Kenneth Ferguson, of San Lorenzo, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 4, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23E · Line 2
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- June 26, 1944
- Home of record
- San Lorenzo, California (Alameda County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 4, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
49 names on the Wall carry the date July 4, 1967; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23E, Line 2
- DANIEL RONEN COXLance Corporal · July 4, 1967
- WILLIAM ORVILLE EDMONDSPrivate First Class · July 4, 1967
- DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOURLance Corporal · July 4, 1967
- GILBERT FELICIANOPrivate First Class · July 4, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES EDDY TURNERPrivate First Class · Panel 23E, Line 8
From San Lorenzo
- STEVE ALBERT SRSENPrivate First Class · January 27, 1967
- JAMES DENNIS PIPERPrivate First Class · April 11, 1967
- PATRICK BERT HOPPECorporal · August 2, 1967
- LARRY DOUGLAS SHARPPrivate First Class · November 9, 1967
- WILLIS GLEN CARDINCorporal · February 6, 1968
- DENNIS JOSEPH MEDEIROSCorporal · March 6, 1968
- RAY WILLIAM BERG JRSpecialist Four · April 22, 1968
- DENNIS LEE TAYLORPrivate First Class · June 5, 1969
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.