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MELVIN W LAY
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
April 3, 1933 – August 25, 1969
Service recordMelvin W Lay, of Ewing, Missouri, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 25, 1969, in South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 19W, Line 113 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 19W · Line 113
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Food Service Specialist (94B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- April 3, 1933
- Home of record
- Ewing, Missouri (Lewis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 25, 1969
- Age
- 36
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date August 25, 1969. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 19W, Line 113
- ALLEN LYNN HITESLance Corporal · August 25, 1969
- DIXON TALMADGE KINARDSergeant First Class · August 25, 1969
- PAUL FRANCIS KOSTICKSergeant · August 25, 1969
- MICHAEL JAMES LAWRENCEPrivate First Class · August 25, 1969
- STEPHEN EUGENE BEBOUTSergeant · January 9, 1972
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.