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LAUREN WALTER STANDRING
First Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps
November 17, 1943 – July 22, 1970
Service recordLauren Walter Standring, of Reseda, California, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 22, 1970, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 8W, Line 45 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8W · 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
- First Lieutenant (1STLT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Officer (I) (0802)
- Born
- November 17, 1943
- Home of record
- Reseda, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 22, 1970
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date July 22, 1970; two of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1970, 495 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 8W, Line 45
- KENNETH WESLEY SLAUGHTERFirst Lieutenant · July 22, 1970
- DANIEL JOSEPH TURCOTTEChief Warrant Officer 2 · July 22, 1970
- GUS ALLENCorporal · July 23, 1970
- DERREL KEITH DICKEYSergeant · July 23, 1970
From Reseda
- ARTHUR LOREN HAWKINS JRCorporal · November 10, 1967
- PATRICK LOUIS BRUCKNERLance Corporal · April 30, 1968
- WILLIAM PAUL TOWNSEND JRPrivate First Class · May 1, 1968
- MICHAEL ANTHONY GEROMESergeant · May 7, 1968
- DAVID RICHARD BINNSPrivate First Class · May 15, 1968
- JOE RAY COURTNEY JRCorporal · May 22, 1968
- DAVID COURTNEY DAHLINSergeant · September 12, 1968
- THOMAS LEE CARTERCaptain · November 10, 1968
- STEPHEN SCOTT NIEDERHAUSESpecialist Five · February 26, 1969
- JAMES RICHARD HARRISONCorporal · March 9, 1969
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.