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EDWARD TAYLOR WRIGHT
Gunnery Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
March 27, 1930 – June 11, 1968
Service recordEdward Taylor Wright, of Los Angeles, California, served as a Gunnery Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 11, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · 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
- Gunnery Sergeant (GYSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Born
- March 27, 1930
- Home of record
- Los Angeles, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 11, 1968
- Age
- 38
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date June 11, 1968; 17 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 58W, Line 30
- RUSSELL JOSEPH WEEKLEYPrivate First Class · June 11, 1968
- CHARLES CLINTON WHITELance Corporal · June 11, 1968
- ROY ALAN WINTERSpecialist Four · June 11, 1968
- GERARD THEODORE WOLTERMANPrivate First Class · June 11, 1968
From Los Angeles
- JAMES WILLIAM MCNALLYTechnical Sergeant · October 23, 1963
- FRANK JOHN HOLGUINPrivate First Class · March 15, 1964
- RICHARD DEAN GOSSCaptain · August 29, 1964
- JOHN LOWERY MCCOYSergeant First Class · September 26, 1964
- JAMES HENRY MCLEANMaster Sergeant · February 9, 1965
- DWIGHT GLENN FRAKESChief Petty Officer · February 24, 1965
- AARON HAROLD WESTERNPrivate First Class · June 16, 1965
- EDWARD JAMES ANDERSPrivate First Class · June 18, 1965
- MAURICE RICHARD HILLPrivate · June 29, 1965
- WILLIAM WARREN HAILLieutenant Colonel · August 2, 1965
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.