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GORDON WILSON OGILVIE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
October 2, 1948 – September 27, 1968
Service recordGordon Wilson Ogilvie, of Bakerville, Arizona, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 27, 1968, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 42W, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 42W · Line 31
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- October 2, 1948
- Home of record
- Bakerville, Arizona (Cochise County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 27, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date September 27, 1968; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 80 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 42W, Line 31
- LUTHER CLARK BERRYMANPrivate First Class · September 27, 1968
- BLAINE STANLEY MILES JRLance Corporal · September 27, 1968
- ANTHONY JOHN MONTOYA JRLance Corporal · September 27, 1968
- JAMES ALBERT MORRIS JRChief Warrant Officer 2 · September 27, 1968
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.