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FRED MILTON ELLIS
Seaman · U.S. Navy
January 31, 1950 – December 29, 1969
Service recordFred Milton Ellis, of Stockton Springs, Maine, served as a Seaman in the U.S. Navy. He died on December 29, 1969, in Chau Doc Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 107 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 107
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. Navy
- Rank
- Seaman (SN)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Gunner's Mate (Guns) (GMG)
- Unit (as recorded)
- USNAVFORV
- Born
- January 31, 1950
- Home of record
- Stockton Springs, Maine (Waldo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 29, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Chau Doc
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date December 29, 1969; he was the only one lost in Chau Doc Province that day. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “USNAVFORV”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 15W, Line 107
- CURTIS GOODPrivate First Class · December 29, 1969
- GLENN RICHARD GRADECKICorporal · December 29, 1969
- CLARENCE EUGENE HARPER JRSpecialist Five · December 29, 1969
- GARY VAUGHN LOVELLETTESpecialist Four · December 29, 1969
From Stockton Springs
- BRADFORD SCOTT NICKERSONPrivate · September 1, 1966
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.