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LESTER GARNELL YARBROUGH
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 1, 1947 – January 31, 1968
Service recordLester Garnell Yarbrough, of Kingsland, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 36E, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36E · Line 44
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- C CO 52 USARV
- Born
- May 1, 1947
- Home of record
- Kingsland, Georgia (Camden County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
246 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1968; 66 of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “C CO 52 USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Gia Dinh Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 36E, Line 44
- TIMOTHY LANE WORTHFirst Lieutenant · January 31, 1968
- ONEAL WRIGHTLance Corporal · January 31, 1968
- CHARLES AUGUSTUS YEOMANSPrivate First Class · January 31, 1968
- STEVEN WILLIAM ZIEGLERStaff Sergeant · January 31, 1968
Same unit, same day
- FRANK EDWIN FAUGHTSpecialist Four · Panel 36E, Line 7
From Kingsland
- RAYFORD HENRY KINGSergeant First Class · April 3, 1971
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.