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LAWRENCE WILLIAM ELLER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 17, 1948 – April 10, 1968
Service recordLawrence William Eller, of Ferguson, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 10, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 49E, Line 10 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 49E · Line 10
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- June 17, 1948
- Home of record
- Ferguson, North Carolina (Wilkes County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 10, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Burns/Smoke Inhalation
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date April 10, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 189 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 49E, Line 10
- GEORGE NOBLE DEVERALLCaptain · April 10, 1968
- ALAN ROBERT GAULTSpecialist Four · April 10, 1968
- WILLIE EDWARD GLOVERPrivate First Class · April 10, 1968
- ALLEN DEWEY HANLANPrivate First Class · April 10, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CLYDE CECIL COLLINSSpecialist Four · Panel 49E, Line 9
- RONALD DAVISPrivate First Class · Panel 49E, Line 9
- ALAN ROBERT GAULTSpecialist Four · Panel 49E, Line 10
- WAYNE CLIFFORD JESTERPrivate · Panel 49E, Line 11
- BRYAN THOMAS MUKAIPrivate First Class · Panel 49E, Line 13
- JONATHAN NEALCorporal · Panel 49E, Line 14
- JAMES ANDRES PALENIK JRPrivate First Class · Panel 49E, Line 14
- JOSEPH A PURYEARSpecialist Four · Panel 49E, Line 15
- WAYNE ALBERT SLANKARDCorporal · Panel 49E, Line 15
From Ferguson
- JAMES THOMAS WOODSSergeant · June 19, 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.