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LEWIS R G DORSEY
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 9, 1947 – March 12, 1968
Service recordLewis R G Dorsey, of Emporia, Kansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 12, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 44E, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44E · Line 25
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Pioneer (12A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- November 9, 1947
- Home of record
- Emporia, Kansas (Lyon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 12, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 12, 1968; three of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 44E, Line 25
- LENARD COLEMANPrivate First Class · March 12, 1968
- STEPHEN RAE CUNNINGHAMPrivate First Class · March 12, 1968
- RICHARD LANCE DUNLAPSpecialist Four · March 12, 1968
- LEON GEORGE EDWARDSSpecialist Four · March 12, 1968
From Emporia
- MARVIN DOUGLAS BUCKRIDGESpecialist Four · August 18, 1967
- JOHN L PONTINGSergeant First Class · November 22, 1967
- MICHAEL NEIL HUBERTStaff Sergeant · February 24, 1969
- TIMOTHY LYNN CARLEYSpecialist Four · March 26, 1969
- STEVEN VINCENT ASTCorporal · March 2, 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.