The Wall › Panel 25E › Illinois › Peter Joseph Canelakes
PETER JOSEPH CANELAKES
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 21, 1946 – August 31, 1967
Service recordPeter Joseph Canelakes, of Waukegan, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 31, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 73
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
- Born
- April 21, 1946
- Home of record
- Waukegan, Illinois (Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 31, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date August 31, 1967; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 73
- REUBEN CHARLES WILLIAMSSecond Lieutenant · August 30, 1967
- ROSS W WOOD JRSergeant · August 30, 1967
- MICHAEL FREDRICK ELFLEINCorporal · August 31, 1967
- DANNY WRAY ENGESSERPrivate First Class · August 31, 1967
From Waukegan
- WALTER WILLIAM BROWNSpecialist Five · November 5, 1965
- DAVID E BURKESPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- PATRICK JAMES HARRISPrivate First Class · February 18, 1966
- TERRY ALLEN PATTERSONPrivate First Class · March 2, 1967
- ROBERT ALLAN BRIEDSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- DANIEL MCCARTHY MANNLieutenant (junior grade) · April 7, 1967
- EDWARD STEVEN SACCOSpecialist Four · July 15, 1967
- ERHARDT WILLIAM MATHIESENSergeant · November 22, 1967
- DONALD EUGENE SMRTNIKSergeant · April 18, 1968
- RICHARD JOHN TURBITT JRSpecialist Four · April 20, 1968
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.