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ELMER LEE FAULKNER JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 25, 1948 – June 18, 1968
Service recordElmer Lee Faulkner JR, of Greenwood, Delaware, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 18, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 56W, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56W · Line 20
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
- Combat Engineer (1371)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO 3 ENG BN 3 MARDIV
- Born
- September 25, 1948
- Home of record
- Greenwood, Delaware (Sussex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 18, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date June 18, 1968; 30 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 56W, Line 20
- JOHN JOSEPH CIMORELLI JRSpecialist Four · June 18, 1968
- JERRY FLEMINGPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
- RONALD DEAN FOGARDPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
- JIMMIE FERREL GENTRYPrivate First Class · June 18, 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.