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RALPH LEIGH BLAUVELT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
March 13, 1950 – January 31, 1969
Service recordRalph Leigh Blauvelt, of Deerfield, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on January 31, 1969, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 33W, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33W · Line 24
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Materiel Storage And Handling Specialist (76V)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- March 13, 1950
- Home of record
- Deerfield, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 31, 1969
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date January 31, 1969; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 26 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 33W, Line 24
- ROBERT LAWRENCE BLAISPetty Officer Third Class · January 31, 1969
- DAVID EVERETT BROOKINSPrivate First Class · January 31, 1969
- BOYCE DALE BURGETTPrivate First Class · January 31, 1969
- HILDEFONSO M RAMIREZCorporal · January 31, 1969
From Deerfield
- FRANZ JOSEPH KOLBECKPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- JOSEPH WILLIAM DEROSAPrivate First Class · April 14, 1967
- WILLIAM GREGORY LANDONPrivate First Class · May 26, 1967
- ROBERT KITTRIDGE VARICKSpecialist Four · April 18, 1968
- ROGER ZIMMERMANStaff Sergeant · May 10, 1968
- TIMOTHY PATRICK MCGUIRELance Corporal · May 27, 1968
- ALLEN EDWIN OLSONSpecialist Five · February 20, 1969
- WILLIAM ERIC SCHAEFERPrivate First Class · May 12, 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.