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ERNEST FREDERICK LAWRENCE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
November 21, 1949 – February 16, 1968
Service recordErnest Frederick Lawrence, of Walnut Creek, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 16, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 39E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39E · Line 62
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- November 21, 1949
- Home of record
- Walnut Creek, California (Contra Costa County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 16, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date February 16, 1968; six of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 39E, Line 62
- KENNETH RICHARD JOHNSONLance Corporal · February 16, 1968
- JEROME RICHARD KELLYSergeant · February 16, 1968
- WILLIAM ALLEN LEECorporal · February 16, 1968
- GEORGE GERALD LESCARBEAUSpecialist Four · February 16, 1968
From Walnut Creek
- ROBERT JOHN REILLY JRLance Corporal · December 9, 1965
- JOHN PATRICK BURKEPrivate First Class · February 14, 1967
- FRANK CHICO TORRES JRSpecialist Four · May 5, 1967
- JAMES KEVIN KOEHLERLance Corporal · June 11, 1967
- DAVID ALAN OBERLELance Corporal · October 18, 1967
- RICHARD CURTISPrivate First Class · December 12, 1967
- WILLARD EDWARD NELSONLance Corporal · January 30, 1968
- BRUCE FRANCIS MCMILLANCaptain · April 11, 1968
- FRED JOE HAYESStaff Sergeant · April 13, 1968
- ROBERT STANLEY CROKELance Corporal · April 27, 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.