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NEIL EDWARD RILEY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
May 5, 1946 – September 13, 1966
Service recordNeil Edward Riley, of Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 13, 1966, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 93
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, 1946
- Home of record
- Gibsonia, Pennsylvania (Allegheny County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 13, 1966
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date September 13, 1966; two of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 10E, Line 93
- CHARLES MICHAEL MARTINHospitalman · September 13, 1966
- JAMES LAMONT PALMERPrivate First Class · September 13, 1966
- JOHN PETER SKORO JRFirst Lieutenant · September 13, 1966
- JOHN E STACKHOUSECaptain · September 13, 1966
From Gibsonia
- DAIN VANDERLIN SCOTTLieutenant Commander · August 21, 1967
- HERBERT F WELTZ JRSpecialist Five · March 25, 1968
- CHARLES HILTON DELLINGERSeaman · August 2, 1968
- RICHARD WILLIAM BELLPetty Officer Third Class · October 2, 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.