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GARY LEROY SCHEMEL
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 4, 1946 – September 26, 1965
Service recordGary Leroy Schemel, of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 26, 1965, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 95 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 95
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Basic Motor Transport Marine (3500)
- Born
- January 4, 1946
- Home of record
- Cape Girardeau, Missouri (Cape Girardeau County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 26, 1965
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
Five names on the Wall carry the date September 26, 1965; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In September 1965, 150 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 2E, Line 95
- PASIA PAIALIISpecialist Four · September 26, 1965
- TROY MILLER THOMPSON JRPrivate First Class · September 26, 1965
- LUGENE JACKIE CLARKPrivate · September 27, 1965
- EDWIN JOSEPH FALLOONCorporal · September 27, 1965
- JAMES PATRICK KELLYSecond Lieutenant · September 27, 1965
From Cape Girardeau
- ROBERT RAYMOND GREGORYLieutenant Colonel · December 2, 1966
- ELWIN HARRY BUSCHCaptain · June 9, 1967
- JOHN SHELBY BURFORDMajor · August 30, 1967
- ROBERT LEE TAYLOR JRCorporal · March 8, 1968
- CHARLES RICHARD FINLEYPrivate First Class · April 11, 1968
- TERRANCE LEE BROCKSpecialist Four · January 4, 1969
- STEPHEN BLAKE PEELSpecialist Four · August 7, 1969
- ROBERT DALE MCFALLSergeant · March 10, 1970
- EARL WATSON THARP JRSpecialist Five · June 26, 1970
- BILLY JACK HOGAN JRSergeant · November 29, 1970
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.