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HARVEY CHARLES AVERY
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 15, 1942 – March 19, 1969
Service recordHarvey Charles Avery, of Cash, Arkansas, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 19, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 75 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 75
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Combat Engineer (12B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- February 15, 1942
- Home of record
- Cash, Arkansas (Craighead County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 19, 1969
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
61 names on the Wall carry the date March 19, 1969; he was the only one lost in Kon Tum Province that day. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 174 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 75
- DAVID BRUCE ARNOTTPrivate First Class · March 19, 1969
- JAMES MICHAEL ASTONPrivate First Class · March 19, 1969
- HENRY PHILIP BALDWINHospitalman · March 19, 1969
- DONALD RAY BARTLEYPrivate First Class · March 19, 1969
From Cash
- JOHNNY RAY KINGCorporal · April 8, 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.