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HAROLD LESLIE JONES
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
August 12, 1949 – May 8, 1969
Service recordHarold Leslie Jones, of Del City, Oklahoma, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 8, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 23
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- August 12, 1949
- Home of record
- Del City, Oklahoma (Oklahoma County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 8, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date May 8, 1969; ten of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 23
- ROBERT JAMES HAWKSPrivate First Class · May 8, 1969
- LARRY KEITH HENSONPrivate First Class · May 8, 1969
- PETER LAUST JAKOBSENPrivate First Class · May 8, 1969
- ANDRE LOUIS KNOPPERTLance Corporal · May 8, 1969
From Del City
- JIMMY MERYL MULLINSLance Corporal · April 21, 1967
- VERNON JOE JOHNSONSpecialist Four · November 11, 1967
- RONALD WADE PATTONCorporal · November 23, 1967
- GERALD LOYD PARSONSPrivate First Class · May 1, 1968
- RICKY LEE SHACKELFORDSpecialist Four · June 9, 1968
- KENNETH W SKINNER IIIPrivate First Class · June 16, 1968
- JIMMY DOYLE SANDERSCorporal · January 3, 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.