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NEELY CLARENCE WALKER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
January 27, 1929 – January 21, 1970
Service recordNeely Clarence Walker, of Augusta, Georgia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 21, 1970, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 40. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14W · Line 56
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
- Tactical Communitions Chief (31G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- January 27, 1929
- Home of record
- Augusta, Georgia (Richmond County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 21, 1970
- Age
- 40
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date January 21, 1970; he was the only one lost in Pleiku Province that day. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 14W, Line 56
- VICTOR BERNARD STRIBLINGSpecialist Four · January 21, 1970
- KERRY LAMONT TAYLORSpecialist Four · January 21, 1970
- WILLIAM N WILLIAMSONSpecialist Five · January 21, 1970
- ROBERT FRANKLIN BULLA JRStaff Sergeant · January 22, 1970
From Augusta
- WILLIAM JEFFERSON LINDSEYPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- TOMMIE GARRETTCorporal · December 18, 1965
- PAUL EUGENE SWIMPlatoon Sergeant · May 8, 1966
- ROGER DORSEYPrivate First Class · May 10, 1966
- PHILLIP MALCOLM PIERCE JRPrivate First Class · July 22, 1966
- PHILLIP JACOB MOOGSecond Lieutenant · August 10, 1966
- HOWARD D ULMER JRFirst Lieutenant · October 3, 1966
- WILLIAM FORSYTH SPERRYSpecialist Four · November 13, 1966
- ROBERT RICHARDSONPrivate First Class · June 3, 1967
- GERALD WAYNE INGLETTPrivate First Class · June 4, 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.