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JIMMIE LOUIS ELLERBE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 6, 1944 – April 5, 1967
Service recordJimmie Louis Ellerbe, of Rockingham, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 5, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 103 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 103
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- June 6, 1944
- Home of record
- Rockingham, North Carolina (Richmond County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 5, 1967
- Age
- 22
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date April 5, 1967. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 17E, Line 103
- ERNEST BRYAN CUPPSergeant · April 5, 1967
- LEONARD WAYNE ELIEPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- RONALD JAMES FITCHPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
- JERRY WAYNE MANNINGPrivate First Class · April 5, 1967
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM PATRICK KELLYPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 105
From Rockingham
- THOMAS LEE LEWISSergeant First Class · March 23, 1964
- JAMES EDWARD MCPHERSONPrivate First Class · March 30, 1968
- BENJAMIN TALLY DAWKINSSergeant · September 6, 1968
- WILLIAM THOMAS WADDELLStaff Sergeant · May 7, 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.