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LEMUEL EBB TERRELL
Sergeant · U.S. Army
August 13, 1949 – May 3, 1969
Service recordLemuel Ebb Terrell, of Purvis, Mississippi, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 3, 1969, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 109 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 109
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
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- August 13, 1949
- Home of record
- Purvis, Mississippi (Lamar County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 3, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
21 names on the Wall carry the date May 3, 1969; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 178 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 109
- EARL PATRICK SNOWSpecialist Four · May 3, 1969
- GARY WAYNE WRIGHTSpecialist Four · May 3, 1969
- MICHAEL THOMAS ADAMSCaptain · May 4, 1969
- CHARLES HYMAN BESTPrivate · May 4, 1969
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD DAVID MILLERSpecialist Four · Panel 26W, Line 108
From Purvis
- MICHAEL LAND ROBERTSPetty Officer Second Class · January 11, 1968
- ROBERT EARL GREENCorporal · May 12, 1970
- JOSEPH CHARLES SZEKELYSergeant · April 9, 1972
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.