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HAROLD RILEY SIMONDS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 16, 1950 – May 11, 1969
Service recordHarold Riley Simonds, of Gloversville, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 11, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 55
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
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- April 16, 1950
- Home of record
- Gloversville, New York (Fulton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 11, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
65 names on the Wall carry the date May 11, 1969; 17 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 55
- SAMUEL BRUCE SCHWARTZPrivate · May 11, 1969
- DAVID HENRY SHIFLETTPrivate First Class · May 11, 1969
- RONALD LEE SHROPSHIRELance Corporal · May 11, 1969
- HUBERT SAMUEL TILLEY JRStaff Sergeant · May 11, 1969
From Gloversville
- GARY JAMES SCOTTPrivate First Class · May 27, 1968
- ALAN CHARLES DONNELLYLance Corporal · November 14, 1968
- MATTHEW JOHN BAURLELance Corporal · May 29, 1969
- VINCENT LOUIS ROSSI SRSergeant First Class · November 15, 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.