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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 Patrick Michael Neville.

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PATRICK MICHAEL NEVILLE

Private First Class · U.S. Army

January 18, 1949 – April 11, 1970

Service record

Patrick Michael Neville, of Columbus, Georgia, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 11, 1970, in Binh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 12W, Line 125 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 12W · Line 125

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
January 18, 1949
Home of record
Columbus, Georgia (Muscogee County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 11, 1970
Age
21
Province
Binh Thuan
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Died of other causes

Context · from the records

What was happening

25 names on the Wall carry the date April 11, 1970; he was the only one lost in Binh Thuan Province that day. In April 1970, 730 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 78 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 12W, Line 125

From Columbus

All 117 names from Columbus →

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.