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LAWRENCE GORDON SWARBRICK
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
April 8, 1945 – August 13, 1970
Service recordLawrence Gordon Swarbrick, of Pismo Beach, California, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 13, 1970, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 8W, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 8W · Line 109
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Intelligence Staff Officer (G2,a2,s2) (9301)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- April 8, 1945
- Home of record
- Pismo Beach, California (San Luis Obispo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 13, 1970
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date August 13, 1970; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1970, 452 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 8W, Line 109
- WILLIAM L RIPLEYSergeant · August 13, 1970
- STEVEN CLAYTON SCOTTSpecialist Four · August 13, 1970
- GREGORY CARLYLE STITTCorporal · August 13, 1970
- ROBERT HUGH WESTONSpecialist Four · August 13, 1970
Same unit, same day
- HENRY THOMAS COXCaptain · Panel 8W, Line 107
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.