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RALPH ARTHUR WICKHAM
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
July 23, 1940 – April 15, 1967
Service recordRalph Arthur Wickham, of Durhamville, New York, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on April 15, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 18E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18E · Line 27
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- July 23, 1940
- Home of record
- Durhamville, New York (Oneida County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 15, 1967
- Age
- 26
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
26 names on the Wall carry the date April 15, 1967. In April 1967, 887 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 57 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18E, Line 27
- ROBERT EARL MCKEEPrivate First Class · April 14, 1967
- ROBERT SCHERLAGPrivate First Class · April 14, 1967
- JAMES FRANKLIN TINDELLPrivate First Class · April 14, 1967
- HOWARD DANIEL VANDENACREPrivate First Class · April 14, 1967
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.