The Wall › Panel 22E › Colorado › Hubert Elton Gordon
HUBERT ELTON GORDON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 2, 1946 – June 25, 1967
Service recordHubert Elton Gordon, of Hudson, Colorado, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 25, 1967, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22E · Line 61
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV
- Born
- March 2, 1946
- Home of record
- Hudson, Colorado (Weld County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 25, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date June 25, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3/5 CAV 9 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 22E, Line 61
- LUIS FELIPE CORREACorporal · June 25, 1967
- WILLIAM KIRBY GARDELLACorporal · June 25, 1967
- WAYNE VICTOR GORDONSergeant · June 25, 1967
- RONALD HOWARD GROFFSpecialist Four · June 25, 1967
From Hudson
- MAURO MARTINEZPrivate First Class · April 16, 1968
- ROBERT DEAN SCHNEIDERSpecialist Five · November 29, 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.