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PETER BERNARD RICH
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
July 6, 1945 – September 15, 1968
Service recordPeter Bernard Rich, of Wakefield, Massachusetts, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 15, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 44W, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 44W · Line 66
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 5 INF DIV MECH
- Born
- July 6, 1945
- Home of record
- Wakefield, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 15, 1968
- Age
- 23
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date September 15, 1968; 12 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “5 INF DIV MECH”, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 44W, Line 66
- HAROLD ONEAL JRLance Corporal · September 15, 1968
- STANLEY RUSSELL PETTITCorporal · September 15, 1968
- JERRY LYNN POEPrivate First Class · September 15, 1968
- EDDIE LEE RILEYPrivate First Class · September 15, 1968
- JOAQUIN ROBLESCorporal · September 15, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GILBERT CARVALHOSergeant · Panel 44W, Line 61
From Wakefield
- ANTHONY GUY VELARDOLance Corporal · March 27, 1966
- PETER FRYE SCHRAMMLance Corporal · June 1, 1966
- JOHN FRANCIS FITZGIBBONSFirst Lieutenant · November 25, 1968
- HARVEY ALBERT DUHY JRCorporal · June 19, 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.