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GEORGE ARTHUR KYRICOS
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
July 30, 1948 – August 23, 1968
Service recordGeorge Arthur Kyricos, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 23, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 47
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
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- July 30, 1948
- Home of record
- Tewksbury, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 23, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
111 names on the Wall carry the date August 23, 1968; 51 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 47
- RAYMOND LOUIS LAGROU JRPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
- WILLIE JAMES LAMARSpecialist Four · August 23, 1968
- JOEL MITCHELL LAROCHEPrivate First Class · August 23, 1968
- LOREN ELWOOD LONGSpecialist Five · August 23, 1968
From Tewksbury
- DAVID MICHAEL MORRISWarrant Officer 1 · November 14, 1968
- RICHARD GIRARD MORINCaptain · December 20, 1968
- ROBERT EVERETT SPIRESSpecialist Four · March 12, 1969
- WAYNE CLOUSE ALLENSergeant First Class · January 10, 1970
- LUCO WILLIAM PALMASeaman · September 18, 1970
- DANIEL KENNETH ERLANDSONSpecialist Four · January 17, 1971
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.