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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Orland Thomas Lloyd.

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ORLAND THOMAS LLOYD

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army

November 22, 1927 – April 7, 1970

Service record

Orland Thomas Lloyd, of Augusta, Georgia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 7, 1970, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 42. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 104 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12W · Line 104

Position of Panel 12W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Staff Sergeant (SSG)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Food Service Specialist (94B)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
November 22, 1927
Home of record
Augusta, Georgia (Richmond County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 7, 1970
Age
42
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Heart Related

Context · from the records

What was happening

16 names on the Wall carry the date April 7, 1970; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 12W, Line 104

From Augusta

All 49 names from Augusta →

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.