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HAYDN EVANS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 22, 1949 – May 31, 1968
Service recordHaydn Evans, of Roselle, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 31, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 62W, Line 5 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 62W · Line 5
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
- August 22, 1949
- Home of record
- Roselle, New Jersey (Union County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 31, 1968
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
79 names on the Wall carry the date May 31, 1968; 54 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 62W, Line 5
- LARRY WARREN BENDERCorporal · May 31, 1968
- EUGENE PAUL BERESIKMajor · May 31, 1968
- JOHN WESTLEY BOWDENSergeant · May 31, 1968
- HENRY JOSEPH BOYE JRPrivate First Class · May 31, 1968
From Roselle
- SYLVESTER LANDSergeant · March 16, 1967
- HERMAN LUDWIG KNAPPColonel · April 24, 1967
- PAUL E LATOURETTESergeant · October 20, 1967
- LESLIE JAMES FROLICHPrivate First Class · February 12, 1968
- MICHAEL STEVEN KRAVCHAKPrivate First Class · February 27, 1968
- JOHN FRANCIS DUGANCaptain · March 20, 1971
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.