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GEORGE EDWARD LONSDALE
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 14, 1948 – December 27, 1967
Service recordGeorge Edward Lonsdale, of Hartford, Connecticut, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 27, 1967, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 77
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
- Machinegunner (0331)
- Born
- December 14, 1948
- Home of record
- Hartford, Connecticut (Hartford County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 27, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
88 names on the Wall carry the date December 27, 1967; 35 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 77
- EARL LEROY LEWISPrivate First Class · December 27, 1967
- RICHARD EUGENE LEWISPrivate First Class · December 27, 1967
- VERNON RAYMOND LIPINSKIPrivate First Class · December 27, 1967
- JAMES ELLIS LOUDERMILKSpecialist Four · December 27, 1967
From Hartford
- WALTER ALEXANDER TERLECKISergeant · February 18, 1966
- EDMUND FRANCIS EDDYPrivate First Class · March 28, 1966
- LAWRENCE DANE WOODSCaptain · June 24, 1966
- MALCOLM CRAYTON BERRYPrivate First Class · June 29, 1966
- DAVID KEITH HIGHTFirst Lieutenant · June 30, 1966
- STEPHEN S STRYCHARZ JRLance Corporal · July 15, 1966
- JIMMY LEE LANGSTONPrivate First Class · February 28, 1967
- ALLAN PAUL FIRMNECKHospitalman · April 22, 1967
- JAMES STEVEN LEONARDCorporal · May 18, 1967
- LAWRENCE JAY SILVERFirst Lieutenant · June 13, 1967
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.