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JOHN DAVID HAMILTON JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 5, 1948 – March 24, 1969
Service recordJohn David Hamilton JR, of Rochester, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 24, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28W, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28W · Line 27
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- December 5, 1948
- Home of record
- Rochester, New York (Monroe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 24, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
45 names on the Wall carry the date March 24, 1969; three of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 121 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28W, Line 27
- WILLIAM HOWARD KEELERSpecialist Four · March 24, 1969
- MONTY GILBERT LACKASSergeant · March 24, 1969
- THOMAS LEE LOANPrivate First Class · March 24, 1969
- ROBERT THOMAS MANNINGPrivate First Class · March 24, 1969
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT ANDREW HOLAN JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 28W, Line 26
- THOMAS LEE LOANPrivate First Class · Panel 28W, Line 27
- DENNIS MICHAEL SILVERIPrivate First Class · Panel 28W, Line 29
From Rochester
- EUGENE RICHARDSONAirman First Class · October 24, 1964
- JOHN E EHRMENTRAUT JRPrivate First Class · April 24, 1965
- ALBERT S KNIGHT IIILance Corporal · June 22, 1965
- JOHN BERNARD TETTEPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- GEORGE STEPHEN BALAZYPrivate First Class · September 12, 1965
- JOSEPH CHRISTIANOColonel · December 24, 1965
- NOEL MICHAEL BARTOLFPrivate First Class · January 2, 1966
- NICHOLES SOCHACKIPrivate First Class · February 25, 1966
- RICHARD FLOYD SMITHPrivate First Class · March 16, 1966
- ROBERT JULIUS VANREYPENPrivate First Class · March 27, 1966
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.