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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Errol Michael Barrimond.

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ERROL MICHAEL BARRIMOND

Private First Class · U.S. Army

September 14, 1946 – May 2, 1968

Service record

Errol Michael Barrimond, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 2, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 54E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 54E · Line 1

Position of Panel 54E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
82 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
September 14, 1946
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 2, 1968
Age
21
Province
Thua Thien
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

113 names on the Wall carry the date May 2, 1968; 15 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 82nd Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 54E, Line 1

Same unit, same day

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.