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JOHN GREGG TINKER
Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
July 7, 1948 – October 28, 1967
Service recordJohn Gregg Tinker, of New Boston, Illinois, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 28, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 94 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 94
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Lance Corporal (LCPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- July 7, 1948
- Home of record
- New Boston, Illinois (Mercer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 28, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date October 28, 1967; five of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 28E, Line 94
- WILLIS JUNIOR SCHUBERTPrivate First Class · October 28, 1967
- ALVIN PHILLIP TRONNESSergeant First Class · October 28, 1967
- WILLIAM JOHN WAGNER JRLance Corporal · October 28, 1967
- ROBERT LEE AGARCorporal · October 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.