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EMMONS EDWARD FUNK JR
Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 7, 1944 – April 11, 1969
Service recordEmmons Edward Funk JR, of Willard, Ohio, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 11, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 53
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- November 7, 1944
- Home of record
- Willard, Ohio (Huron County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 11, 1969
- Age
- 24
- 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 53
- WALTER SPERRING STRAHANPrivate First Class · April 10, 1969
- RONALD JOSEPH TOWARDPrivate First Class · April 10, 1969
- EUGENE CONSTANTINO ZAMORAPrivate First Class · April 10, 1969
- JOHNNIE LEE ANDERSONLance Corporal · April 11, 1969
Same unit, same day
- KENNETH EARL BROWNSergeant · Panel 27W, Line 54
- EDWARD VALENTINE EIDEN JRSergeant · Panel 27W, Line 55
From Willard
- DANIEL CLYDE LYKINSPrivate First Class · August 25, 1966
- MELVIN EDWARD BEVIERSpecialist Four · November 25, 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.