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LEWIS CLAYTON CHILDRESS
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
April 4, 1948 – November 16, 1967
Service recordLewis Clayton Childress, of Urbana, Illinois, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 16, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 104
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Air Delivery Man (7141)
- Unit (as recorded)
- FLC 3 MARDIV
- Born
- April 4, 1948
- Home of record
- Urbana, Illinois (Champaign County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 16, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date November 16, 1967; five of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 29E, Line 104
- BOBBY RAY ALEXANDERCorporal · November 16, 1967
- JOHN FRANCIS BETTENCOURTPrivate First Class · November 16, 1967
- DONALD WILLIAM BOYERSpecialist Four · November 16, 1967
- ROBERT WILLIAM BREDESpecialist Four · November 16, 1967
From Urbana
- WALTER LEWIS GLASSMajor · February 28, 1964
- MAYNARD JEWEL HUMESSergeant · November 11, 1966
- MAURICE ALBERT SHAFF JRMajor · June 17, 1967
- TERRY NEIL HARDIGSergeant · January 21, 1969
- GEORGE RONALD LOVELLETTESpecialist Four · March 2, 1969
- STEVEN EUGENE BROWNPrivate First Class · May 30, 1969
- GAIL LEE WHITLATCHSpecialist Four · July 22, 1969
- GERALD FIELD MCGLONECaptain · October 7, 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.