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JAMES LAWRENCE HOLROYD
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 11, 1948 – April 9, 1967
Service recordJames Lawrence Holroyd, of Roeland Park, Kansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 9, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 4
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- C BTRY 2 BN 94 ARTY
- Born
- August 11, 1948
- Home of record
- Roeland Park, Kansas (Johnson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 9, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date April 9, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 4
- ARTHUR A GLEASONPrivate · April 9, 1967
- GLENN JOHN HLAVACEKCorporal · April 9, 1967
- DOUGLAS C HOLLANDSpecialist Four · April 9, 1967
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.