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PETER WILLIAM ROY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
August 25, 1949 – December 5, 1967
Service recordPeter William Roy, of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on December 5, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 41 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 31E · Line 41
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
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- August 25, 1949
- Home of record
- Fairhaven, Massachusetts (Bristol County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 5, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date December 5, 1967; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 31E, Line 41
- CHARLES DANIEL MAXSONPrivate First Class · December 5, 1967
- AUGUST HAROLD MONHOFCorporal · December 5, 1967
- FRANK ERNEST MOREY JRGunnery Sergeant · December 5, 1967
- THELMER ARTHUR RUDLONGPrivate First Class · December 5, 1967
From Fairhaven
- DAVID ALAN DROWNSpecialist Four · March 27, 1967
- HENRY ANTHONY CHEVALIERSpecialist Four · May 14, 1969
- DONALD ROGER DESMARAISStaff Sergeant · October 22, 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.