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PETER MALCOLM BREDBURY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 28, 1946 – December 3, 1965
Service recordPeter Malcolm Bredbury, of Reading, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 3, 1965, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 121 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3E · Line 121
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
- Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
- Born
- July 28, 1946
- Home of record
- Reading, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 3, 1965
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date December 3, 1965; five of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In December 1965, 326 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 3E, Line 121
- RAFAEL ACEVEDO-RECHANIMajor · December 3, 1965
- STANLEY GARWOOD JOHNSONFirst Lieutenant · December 3, 1965
- THOMAS LEWISPrivate First Class · December 3, 1965
- RICHARD W MILLERSergeant · December 3, 1965
From Reading
- ROBERT JAMES CROCELance Corporal · July 15, 1966
- JOHN WILLIAM HANSCOMPrivate First Class · March 2, 1967
- BRUCE CARLTON PARMELEEPrivate First Class · April 21, 1967
- ROBERT ALAN HOLTCaptain · September 19, 1968
- EDWARD ALLEN PUTNEYStaff Sergeant · May 10, 1969
- MICHAEL DENNIS HAVELSpecialist Five · June 26, 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.