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JOHN B BURGESS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 3, 1947 – November 1, 1967
Service recordJohn B Burgess, of Falmouth, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 1, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 1
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
- Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- November 3, 1947
- Home of record
- Falmouth, Massachusetts (Barnstable County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 1, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date November 1, 1967; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 91 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29E, Line 1
- WALTER EARL BENTLEYCorporal · November 1, 1967
- RONALD JOSEPH COSTANTINOLance Corporal · November 1, 1967
- MORRELL JOSEPH CRARYSecond Lieutenant · November 1, 1967
- NICHOLAS BEN ENRIQUEZCorporal · November 1, 1967
Same unit, same day
- HOWARD LYNN BARTLEYPrivate First Class · Panel 28E, Line 107
- ALBERT BRILLO JRSergeant · Panel 29E, Line 2
- ROBERT WILBUR LARISONCorporal · Panel 29E, Line 4
- BERTMANN EARL MILLERSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 4
- LEWIS MILTON OGLESergeant · Panel 29E, Line 5
- KENNETH EUGENE SLATERPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 6
- DAVID TUCKERSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 7
- MICHAEL VIEHWEGSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 7
From Falmouth
- EUGENE FRANCIS ROBINSONFirst Sergeant · March 9, 1966
- BERNARD EDWARD STJEANCorporal · December 21, 1966
- EDWARD THOMAS MELLO JRFirst Lieutenant · April 19, 1968
- JOSEPH ALFRED ALBRECHTPetty Officer First Class · August 2, 1968
- ANTHONY EDWARD KUPKASecond Lieutenant · April 16, 1969
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.