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LAWRENCE ARNOLD DAVIS
Sergeant · U.S. Army
February 19, 1947 – July 18, 1968
Service recordLawrence Arnold Davis, of Lothian, Maryland, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 18, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 51W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51W · Line 3
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- February 19, 1947
- Home of record
- Lothian, Maryland (Anne Arundel County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 18, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date July 18, 1968; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 38 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 51W, Line 3
- BILLY LEE COOKSpecialist Five · July 18, 1968
- VICTOR LOUIS DODDYSpecialist Four · July 18, 1968
- HERMAN DERL DUNCANStaff Sergeant · July 18, 1968
- MICHAEL ELKINTONCorporal · July 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- TERRY KENNETH HUFFSpecialist Four · Panel 51W, Line 2
- ALVIN MACK LASTER JRSpecialist Four · Panel 51W, Line 6
- GARY BERNERD SANFORDSpecialist Four · Panel 51W, Line 8
From Lothian
- HARVEY TYRONE PINKNEYSpecialist Five · January 13, 1970
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.