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FREDFOR EDWARDS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 7, 1947 – August 22, 1968
Service recordFredfor Edwards, of Effingham, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 22, 1968, in Darlac Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 26 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 26
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- October 7, 1947
- Home of record
- Effingham, South Carolina (Florence County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 22, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Darlac
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date August 22, 1968; two of them were lost in Darlac Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 61 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 26
- JAMES BLAIN CARLSONStaff Sergeant · August 22, 1968
- LARRY DAVIDSON COOKPrivate First Class · August 22, 1968
- DONNIE LEE DAMEWOODSpecialist Four · August 22, 1968
- PHILIP T DELORENZO JRPrivate First Class · August 22, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT LESLIE ROSSFirst Lieutenant · Panel 47W, Line 31
From Effingham
- HARMON JULIOUS PIGATTPrivate First Class · February 12, 1967
- HENRY LAWRENCE OWENSSpecialist Four · May 14, 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.