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MOUNCE EDWARD WEST
Private First Class · U.S. Army
September 21, 1949 – March 1, 1969
Service recordMounce Edward West, of Paragould, Arkansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 1, 1969, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30W · Line 8
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- September 21, 1949
- Home of record
- Paragould, Arkansas (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 1, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
51 names on the Wall carry the date March 1, 1969; he was the only one lost in Hua Nghia Province that day. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 121 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 30W, Line 8
- STEVEN REY SEGURASpecialist Four · March 1, 1969
- JOHN EDWARD TIPTONSpecialist Four · March 1, 1969
- ALVIN CARNALL TOOMBS JRPrivate First Class · March 1, 1969
- WILBERT MICHAEL WEBSTERPrivate First Class · March 1, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JOHN PAUL GRIMENSTEIN JRPrivate First Class · Panel 30W, Line 3
- DALE GEORGE HELGESONSergeant · Panel 30W, Line 4
- FRANK WILDERCorporal · Panel 30W, Line 5
- DONALD RICHARD MAYBERRYSpecialist Four · Panel 30W, Line 6
- STEVEN REY SEGURASpecialist Four · Panel 30W, Line 8
From Paragould
- TIMOTHY EUGENE CLARKCorporal · December 21, 1966
- TEDDY GENE WHITTONSpecialist Five · December 6, 1967
- RANDALL LLOYD HARVEYSergeant First Class · March 8, 1969
- JOHN EDWARD COOKSpecialist Four · October 21, 1969
- DENNIS WILLARD HUFFINESergeant · July 14, 1970
- HARDY EDWARD CLEVELANDSpecialist Four · October 30, 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.