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LEROY CLYDE GEYER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
August 10, 1936 – June 18, 1968
Service recordLeroy Clyde Geyer, of Hayward, California, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 18, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 31. His name is inscribed on Panel 56W, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56W · Line 16
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 First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- August 10, 1936
- Home of record
- Hayward, California (Alameda County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 18, 1968
- Age
- 31
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date June 18, 1968; five of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 65 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 56W, Line 16
- ROOSEVELT TOWNSENDCorporal · June 17, 1968
- WILLIAM THOMAS WEDGEWORTHCorporal · June 17, 1968
- MARVIN LEON WYATTSpecialist Four · June 17, 1968
- RONALD LEE ALESHIREPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ALVIN PETER CHRISTENSENPrivate First Class · Panel 56W, Line 18
- RANDY STEPHEN SCHELLSpecialist Four · Panel 56W, Line 27
- CHARLIE VANCE THOMPSONPrivate First Class · Panel 56W, Line 29
- DANIEL ANDREW WITKOPrivate First Class · Panel 56W, Line 30
From Hayward
- RICHARD C AMATOPrivate First Class · January 11, 1966
- WILLIAM RICHARD CLEMENTSLieutenant (junior grade) · October 26, 1966
- MICHAEL JOSEPH HEALCorporal · February 28, 1967
- ROBERT WAYNE SKARPHOLSpecialist Four · March 8, 1967
- DOUGLAS HUDSON MCCALLPrivate First Class · April 22, 1967
- RICHARD TYRONE BROWNPrivate First Class · April 26, 1967
- ALLEN BARTLEY RUSSELLSergeant First Class · May 20, 1967
- GERALD RUSSELL HENRYLance Corporal · July 7, 1967
- LEVAN ARLIN CHURCHLance Corporal · August 1, 1967
- SANFORD SHROUT JRLance Corporal · September 2, 1967
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.