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JOHN GWIN RITCH
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
November 18, 1948 – November 10, 1968
Service recordJohn Gwin Ritch, of Parrish, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 10, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 45
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- November 18, 1948
- Home of record
- Parrish, Alabama (Walker County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 10, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date November 10, 1968; seven of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 45
- JOHN PAUL MURPHYSpecialist Four · November 10, 1968
- HAWK JESSE MILTON REDPrivate · November 10, 1968
- BILLIE GROVER RUSSCorporal · November 10, 1968
- HARRY W WICKERSHAM JRFirst Lieutenant · November 10, 1968
From Parrish
- ROGER ALLEN STONESergeant · November 17, 1965
- EDDIE JAMES MICKENSSpecialist Four · April 8, 1967
- ROBERT WAYNE SALTERSergeant · August 23, 1968
- BOBBIE LEE WILLIAMSCorporal · January 4, 1971
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.