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MAURICE P CHAPMAN JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 5, 1947 – September 20, 1967
Service recordMaurice P Chapman JR, of Harwood, Maryland, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 20, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 95 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26E · Line 95
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- May 5, 1947
- Home of record
- Harwood, Maryland (Anne Arundel County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 20, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date September 20, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 26E, Line 95
- BARRY HENNETT WILLIAMSLance Corporal · September 19, 1967
- JAMES LIONEL WOODSON JRPrivate First Class · September 19, 1967
- ROGER LARRY CORNETTSpecialist Four · September 20, 1967
- KENNETH IAN FINKELCorporal · September 20, 1967
From Harwood
- JOHN MOULDENSpecialist Four · November 28, 1968
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.