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FREDERIC GUSTAVE AGATHER
Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Army
July 2, 1929 – June 1, 1969
Service recordFrederic Gustave Agather, of Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army. He died on June 1, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23W · Line 34
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
- Lieutenant Colonel (LTC)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- July 2, 1929
- Home of record
- Sauk Rapids, Minnesota (Benton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 1, 1969
- Age
- 39
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
33 names on the Wall carry the date June 1, 1969; three of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23W, Line 34
- RUDOLPH ROBERT TREVINOPrivate First Class · May 31, 1969
- JAMES JOSEPH WISESpecialist Four · May 31, 1969
- JAMES ALFRED WRIGHTSpecialist Four · May 31, 1969
- ERNEST ABEYTAPrivate First Class · June 1, 1969
Same unit, same day
- EARLE JOHN BEMISSecond Lieutenant · Panel 23W, Line 35
- JAMES MARTIN STOTTSSergeant First Class · Panel 23W, Line 40
From Sauk Rapids
- RUSSELL DEAN SPIEROWSKIPrivate First Class · July 13, 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.