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KEVIN LEE FERGUSON
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 6, 1948 – October 16, 1967
Service recordKevin Lee Ferguson, of Bridgeton, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 16, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 14 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 14
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
- December 6, 1948
- Home of record
- Bridgeton, New Jersey (Cumberland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 16, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date October 16, 1967; five of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Con Thien was under way. Through September and October 1967, North Vietnamese artillery across the Demilitarized Zone pounded the Marine outpost at Con Thien and the bases along the DMZ in Quảng Trị Province. 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 28E, Line 14
- JOHN WALTER BURKECorporal · October 16, 1967
- JUNIOR R BURNSPlatoon Sergeant · October 16, 1967
- GEORGE WILLIAM CLARKE JRMajor · October 16, 1967
- RICHARD ARTHUR DEMERSCorporal · October 16, 1967
From Bridgeton
- DONALD WILLIS GEBHARTLance Corporal · November 30, 1967
- IRVING CLARENCE PIERCE JRPrivate First Class · February 11, 1968
- FRANKLIN N GILES JRSecond Lieutenant · March 27, 1968
- EDWARD ORLANDO WYNDERPetty Officer Second Class · April 1, 1968
- LESTER WILLIAMS JRSpecialist Four · November 1, 1968
- OTIS GREENLance Corporal · February 4, 1969
- JAMES WILBERT DERBYSHIREPrivate First Class · April 15, 1969
- HARLAND M DAVIS JRMajor · July 7, 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.