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LEWIS JEFFERY PARKER
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
June 21, 1946 – January 13, 1968
Service recordLewis Jeffery Parker, of Gates, North Carolina, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on January 13, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · 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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 3 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV
- Born
- June 21, 1946
- Home of record
- Gates, North Carolina (Gates County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 13, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date January 13, 1968; 22 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “3 BN 9 MAR 3 MARDIV”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 34E, Line 44
- MICHAEL WALTER ORRPrivate First Class · January 13, 1968
- DENNIS KELLY RICEHospitalman · January 13, 1968
- ROBERT LEE ROGERSPrivate First Class · January 13, 1968
- ANDERSON LINWOOD RUDERSONSergeant · January 13, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL THEODORE GEORGESecond Lieutenant · Panel 34E, Line 42
- BRUCE AUSTIN MORRISONPrivate First Class · Panel 34E, Line 43
- DENNIS KELLY RICEHospitalman · Panel 34E, Line 44
- ALFRED BAYARD RUSSFirst Lieutenant · Panel 34E, Line 45
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.