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JAMES RICHARD GOLDING
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 6, 1944 – November 23, 1968
Service recordJames Richard Golding, of Gainesville, Florida, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on November 23, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 38W, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 38W · Line 43
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- September 6, 1944
- Home of record
- Gainesville, Florida (Alachua County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 23, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date November 23, 1968; he was the only one lost in Kon Tum Province that day. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 38W, Line 43
- DARIO DAVID GUERRASpecialist Four · November 23, 1968
- JAMES RANDOLPH HARRELLPrivate First Class · November 23, 1968
- DAVID WAYNE HEMPHILLHospitalman · November 23, 1968
- LESLIE A LEWISPrivate First Class · November 23, 1968
- RAY EUGENE MCCUNEMajor · November 23, 1968
From Gainesville
- VERNON THOMAS CARTER JRLance Corporal · December 10, 1965
- NOAH MORRIS KRAFTFirst Lieutenant · March 21, 1966
- JEROME CORDELL WINTERSCaptain · July 25, 1966
- LORENZO COLUMBUS MAULDENPrivate First Class · July 26, 1966
- FREDDIE LEE KLECKLEYPrivate First Class · August 10, 1966
- LINDY EDWARD HENRYStaff Sergeant · April 28, 1967
- JAMES MILTON JEFFERSONLieutenant Colonel · May 12, 1967
- AUBURN DALE MCCOMBPetty Officer Second Class · May 14, 1967
- WESLEY IRA GOSWICKSpecialist Five · May 18, 1967
- JAMES MIKEL RUNNELSAirman · July 29, 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.