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MELVILLE ALBERT LURTH JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 24, 1945 – June 8, 1969
Service recordMelville Albert Lurth JR, of St Peter, Minnesota, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 8, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 114 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23W · Line 114
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- AMERICAL DIV
- Born
- July 24, 1945
- Home of record
- St Peter, Minnesota (Nicollet County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 8, 1969
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date June 8, 1969; five of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The Americal Division, his unit in the record, lost 17 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23W, Line 114
- JAMES ALFRED PERSONPrivate First Class · June 8, 1969
- JOHNNY BILL ROBERTSON JRPrivate First Class · June 8, 1969
- ROBERT ROY SHERIDANSergeant · June 8, 1969
- DEANE FRANKLYN SMITH JRPrivate First Class · June 8, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JAY ALLEN KAUFMANPrivate First Class · Panel 23W, Line 111
From St Peter
- FREDRICK JOSEPH BRENKEPrivate First Class · June 27, 1967
- RICHARD RAYMOND WEISEPrivate First Class · December 5, 1967
- HARVEY GORDON ENZSpecialist Four · March 22, 1969
- STEVEN EDWARD WETTERGRENPrivate First Class · April 12, 1969
- MICHAEL JAMES MCCLELLANSecond Lieutenant · November 21, 1969
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.