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RAYMOND EARL TOLSMA
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 4, 1949 – March 2, 1969
Service recordRaymond Earl Tolsma, of Prichard, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 2, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 30W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 30W · Line 17
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
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- January 4, 1949
- Home of record
- Prichard, Alabama (Mobile County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 2, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date March 2, 1969; nine of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 30W, Line 17
- WALTER BUSILL TULLY JRMajor · March 2, 1969
- HEUVEL DAVID F VANDENPrivate First Class · March 2, 1969
- JOHN EDMOND WALTERSCorporal · March 2, 1969
- JASPER MARION ALEXANDERStaff Sergeant · March 3, 1969
From Prichard
- JOHN LEO ROBINSONPrivate First Class · January 8, 1966
- HAROLD ARNOLDPrivate First Class · September 8, 1966
- ALFRED CARMICHAEL JRPrivate First Class · November 10, 1966
- PATTERSON SCOTT JRPrivate First Class · January 18, 1967
- EARLIE RANDSergeant · May 3, 1967
- EDWARD ELIAS HEYERSergeant · June 17, 1967
- THEODORE HOWARDSpecialist Four · October 3, 1967
- CLEOPHIS HARRISONSergeant · November 3, 1967
- WILLIE REEDSergeant · November 18, 1967
- JIMMY RAY PIERCEPrivate First Class · March 17, 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.