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LAWRENCE WILLIAM PORTER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
November 15, 1949 – March 1, 1969
Service recordLawrence William Porter, of Steubenville, Ohio, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 1, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30W · Line 7
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)
- Born
- November 15, 1949
- Home of record
- Steubenville, Ohio (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 1, 1969
- 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
51 names on the Wall carry the date March 1, 1969; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 30W, Line 7
- HENRY PULLUM JRSpecialist Four · March 1, 1969
- WILLIAM DEAN RYANSpecialist Five · March 1, 1969
- JOHN CHARLES SCHIFFHAUERSpecialist Five · March 1, 1969
- DAVID EDWARD SCHULZEPrivate First Class · March 1, 1969
From Steubenville
- FREDERICK LEE RYANPrivate First Class · June 21, 1966
- JOHN R CANIFFSpecialist Four · November 5, 1966
- CHARLES HOMER BALLPrivate First Class · December 21, 1966
- THOMAS FRANCIS MASTROIANNIPrivate First Class · March 19, 1967
- ARTHUR ELLIOTT JONESSergeant · March 28, 1967
- JOHN ROBERT ENSELLSpecialist Four · November 7, 1967
- JAMES WARREN ALLEN JRCorporal · November 8, 1967
- HOWARD KEITH WILLIAMSLieutenant Colonel · March 18, 1968
- ROBERT ALLEN LULLAFirst Lieutenant · April 1, 1968
- CALVIN CHARLES GLOVERChief Master Sergeant · May 22, 1968
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.