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LLOYD HENRY KENT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 23, 1946 – January 12, 1968
Service recordLloyd Henry Kent, of Grenada, Mississippi, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 12, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 37 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 37
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- May 23, 1946
- Home of record
- Grenada, Mississippi (Grenada County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 12, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date January 12, 1968; four of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 169 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 37
- WILLIAM BAKER HUBBLECorporal · January 12, 1968
- ROBERT D ORR KINGPrivate First Class · January 12, 1968
- DAVID WARREN LEATHERBURYSpecialist Four · January 12, 1968
- EARL LONDONPrivate First Class · January 12, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DONALD CALVIN BROWNSergeant · Panel 34E, Line 34
- JAMES ROY GILLESPIEPrivate First Class · Panel 34E, Line 36
- BERNARD CHARLES MATTSONPrivate First Class · Panel 34E, Line 38
From Grenada
- SAMMIE LEE WATTPrivate First Class · April 1, 1967
- EDDIE DEAN GANTLance Corporal · March 18, 1968
- JAMES ALBERT AMOSPrivate First Class · July 27, 1969
- JAMES LENVER SELDONPrivate First Class · September 16, 1969
- STANTON GERALD SARGENTCorporal · April 21, 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.