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LAWRENCE JOSEPH BUTLER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 4, 1948 – April 4, 1969
Service recordLawrence Joseph Butler, of Hayward, Wisconsin, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 4, 1969, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 8
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. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 4, 1948
- Home of record
- Hayward, Wisconsin (Sawyer County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 4, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date April 4, 1969; he was the only one lost in Gia Dinh Province that day. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27W, Line 8
- GENE LEWIS WHITESergeant · April 3, 1969
- ROBIN RICHARD ANNISPrivate First Class · April 4, 1969
- THOMAS MICHAEL BOULEPrivate First Class · April 4, 1969
- MICHAEL HAROLD FLOODSpecialist Four · April 4, 1969
From Hayward
- CHARLES FREDRICK HUGHESCaptain · July 4, 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.