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MALCOLM FRANCIS LEGER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
February 14, 1949 – June 8, 1969
Service recordMalcolm Francis Leger, of Patterson, Louisiana, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 8, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 112 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23W · Line 112
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Wireman (2511)
- Born
- February 14, 1949
- Home of record
- Patterson, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 8, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date June 8, 1969; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 23W, Line 112
- SHARON ANN LANEFirst Lieutenant · June 8, 1969
- ROBERT NATHANIEL LATIMERPrivate First Class · June 8, 1969
- JOHN EDWARD LORENCECorporal · June 8, 1969
- THOMAS WILLIAM STRATHMANNCorporal · June 8, 1969
From Patterson
- LIONELL POWELLPrivate First Class · February 16, 1967
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.