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LESLIE HAROLD FUNK JR
Petty Officer Third Class · U.S. Navy
July 27, 1944 – October 6, 1967
Service recordLeslie Harold Funk JR, of Aberdeen, Washington, served as a Petty Officer Third Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on October 6, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 59
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. Navy
- Rank
- Petty Officer Third Class (PO3)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Signalman (SM)
- Born
- July 27, 1944
- Home of record
- Aberdeen, Washington (Grays Harbor County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 6, 1967
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Drowning
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date October 6, 1967; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 59
- ERNIE JON ELFENBEINCorporal · October 6, 1967
- JOSEPH LEE HOGGATTPrivate First Class · October 6, 1967
- JIMMIE LE ROY JOHNSONLance Corporal · October 6, 1967
- JOHN LAWRENCE KEATONCorporal · October 6, 1967
From Aberdeen
- LAWRENCE FREDERICK NYMANLieutenant (junior grade) · June 24, 1966
- JOHNNY A CHAMBERSPrivate First Class · January 8, 1967
- JAMES ARNOLD HARDENSpecialist Four · January 17, 1967
- ROGER BLAKE TJERNBERGCorporal · February 3, 1967
- DENNIS MICHAEL THOMPSONCorporal · February 21, 1967
- ARCHIE BURNETTE JRStaff Sergeant · January 31, 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.