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EUGENE RAYMOND SHERIDAN
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
June 26, 1929 – March 30, 1969
Service recordEugene Raymond Sheridan, of Petersburg, New York, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 30, 1969, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 93
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
- Watercraft Operator (61B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- June 26, 1929
- Home of record
- Petersburg, New York (Rensselaer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 30, 1969
- Age
- 39
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date March 30, 1969; three of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 93
- LAWSON DWIGHT NELSONPrivate First Class · March 30, 1969
- DONALD LEE NIXONCorporal · March 30, 1969
- RONALD GENE PACESpecialist Four · March 30, 1969
- JOSEPH JAMES POLASEK JRSpecialist Four · March 30, 1969
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.