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JOSEPH HARGROVE MIDGYETTE
Private First Class · U.S. Army
August 19, 1947 – July 31, 1967
Service recordJoseph Hargrove Midgyette, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 31, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24E · Line 55
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 19, 1947
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 31, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date July 31, 1967. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 9 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24E, Line 55
- RICHARD LOUIS ERTLPrivate First Class · July 31, 1967
- DONALD WAYNE HARTSpecialist Four · July 31, 1967
- JOSEPH EVERETT LAVIGNEPrivate First Class · July 31, 1967
- DOUGLAS RAY NOELPrivate First Class · July 31, 1967
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
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.