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EDWARD VALENTINE EIDEN JR
Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 14, 1948 – April 11, 1969
Service recordEdward Valentine Eiden JR, of Winneconne, Wisconsin, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 11, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 55
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- February 14, 1948
- Home of record
- Winneconne, Wisconsin (Winnebago County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 11, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date April 11, 1969; three of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 55
- RICHARD DAVID AUSBROOKSPrivate · April 11, 1969
- ROBERT M CHRISTIAN JRSecond Lieutenant · April 11, 1969
- NEIL PHILIP FARMERSergeant First Class · April 11, 1969
- GUY TALMADGE FLETCHER JRPrivate First Class · April 11, 1969
Same unit, same day
- EMMONS EDWARD FUNK JRSergeant · Panel 27W, Line 53
- KENNETH EARL BROWNSergeant · Panel 27W, Line 54
From Winneconne
- DAVID JAMES BAITINGERPrivate · October 17, 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.