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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Geoffrey Lawrence Ham.

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GEOFFREY LAWRENCE HAM

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

January 30, 1943 – June 28, 1967

Service record

Geoffrey Lawrence Ham, of Ivyland, Pennsylvania, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 28, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 78 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22E · Line 78

Position of Panel 22E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
January 30, 1943
Home of record
Ivyland, Pennsylvania (Bucks County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 28, 1967
Age
24
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date June 28, 1967; eight of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 73 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 22E, Line 78

Same unit, same day

From Ivyland

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.