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LAWRENCE HENRY COLLIER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 21, 1948 – October 17, 1967
Service recordLawrence Henry Collier, of Memphis, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 17, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 28E · Line 20
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)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO 1 RECON BN 1 MARDIV
- Born
- August 21, 1948
- Home of record
- Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 17, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
75 names on the Wall carry the date October 17, 1967; six of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “A CO 1 RECON BN 1 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 28E, Line 20
- RALPH CARRASCOSpecialist Four · October 17, 1967
- ELWOOD DAVID CHANEY JRSpecialist Four · October 17, 1967
- MELVIN BRUCE COOKSpecialist Four · October 17, 1967
- HAROLD BASCOM DURHAM JRSecond Lieutenant · October 17, 1967
Same unit, same day
- EDWARD HAROLD RAUCHLance Corporal · Panel 28E, Line 30
From Memphis
- JESSE ALEXANDER GRAYSergeant First Class · June 12, 1964
- ANDREW DAYTON PARKER JRMajor · June 18, 1965
- JOHN CARLOS HARRISSergeant · July 21, 1965
- WALTER LEWIS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 19, 1965
- CLAUDE TALBERT JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
- WILLIAM CLYDE HARPERSergeant · October 10, 1965
- DANIEL DAVID HARDENSergeant · November 1, 1965
- RANDLE TOM WOODSLance Corporal · November 6, 1965
- KELLY EUGENE WHITAKERPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- MELVIN FRANK FORTSpecialist Four · November 17, 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.