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EDWIN BYRON RYDER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 4, 1938 – August 31, 1969
Service recordEdwin Byron Ryder, of Greenville, Maine, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 31, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 17
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 First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Construction Equipment Supervisor (62N)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 59 ENG CO 39 ENG BN USARV
- Born
- August 4, 1938
- Home of record
- Greenville, Maine (Piscataquis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 31, 1969
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date August 31, 1969; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “59 ENG CO 39 ENG BN USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 4 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18W, Line 17
- JOHN A POLEFKACorporal · August 31, 1969
- ROY LYNN PORTERPrivate First Class · August 31, 1969
- MICHAEL PRESLIPSKI JRSergeant · August 31, 1969
- RONALD DEAN ROGERSLance Corporal · August 31, 1969
Same unit, same day
- DOUGLAS ALVIN BENNETTSpecialist Five · Panel 18W, Line 13
- JEROME EARL BOWERSSpecialist Four · Panel 18W, Line 13
- MICHAEL PRESLIPSKI JRSergeant · Panel 18W, Line 17
From Greenville
- RANCE ALDEN MCEACHERN JRSergeant · July 14, 1968
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.