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JOHN ROBERT LAWRENCE
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
June 26, 1943 – February 22, 1968
Service recordJohn Robert Lawrence, of Shawnee, Oklahoma, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on February 22, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 40E, Line 65 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 40E · Line 65
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- June 26, 1943
- Home of record
- Shawnee, Oklahoma (Pottawatomie County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 22, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
76 names on the Wall carry the date February 22, 1968; 27 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 168 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Battle of Huế was under way. At Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Marines, soldiers of the 1st Cavalry and 101st Airborne divisions and South Vietnamese troops fought house to house for 26 days to retake the old imperial capital, the longest urban battle of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 40E, Line 65
- ROBERT CHARLES KRUMMSergeant · February 22, 1968
- ROLAND PHILLIP LEVESQUESergeant · February 22, 1968
- WILLIAM CLIVE LINGPetty Officer Third Class · February 22, 1968
- FRANK JESSE LEE MADRIDPrivate First Class · February 22, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WARREN RICHARD BROWNSpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 58
- RICHARD AGUIRRE CONTRERASPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 60
- RANDALL ALLEN HENZEPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 63
- WILLIE JACKSONPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 64
- LARRY DEAN POWELLSpecialist Four · Panel 40E, Line 67
- LEE G TOLLEYPrivate First Class · Panel 40E, Line 69
From Shawnee
- WAYNE WARREN HUMPHRIESSpecialist Four · November 8, 1965
- PETER EARL POWELLSpecialist Five · April 11, 1968
- RONALD VINCENT HARBERTLance Corporal · June 29, 1968
- MELFORD KEITH BLAKELYPrivate First Class · January 10, 1969
- ROY EUGENE LYNNPrivate First Class · March 3, 1969
- MILFORD EUDENE COBBStaff Sergeant · May 23, 1969
- DONALD LYNN WANNChief Warrant Officer 2 · June 1, 1971
- GARY BRUCE FARRISFirst Lieutenant · May 25, 1972
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.