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RAYMOND ELLIS
Lieutenant · U.S. Navy
May 21, 1930 – September 30, 1965
Service recordRaymond Ellis, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 30, 1965, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 99 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 99
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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url No Warfare Specialty (1107)
- Born
- May 21, 1930
- Home of record
- Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (Adams County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 30, 1965
- Age
- 35
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Ten names on the Wall carry the date September 30, 1965; he was the only one lost in Định Tường Province that day. In September 1965, 150 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 2E, Line 99
- RONALD LEE DAVISLance Corporal · August 24, 1965
- MICHAEL DANIEL CHWANCaptain · September 30, 1965
- JOHN J FLEMINGPrivate First Class · September 30, 1965
- MELVIN JOSEPH KILLIANColonel · September 30, 1965
- JAMES DAVID LONGStaff Sergeant · September 30, 1965
From Gettysburg
- LARRY LEROY HESSSecond Lieutenant · November 17, 1965
- JOHN CHARLES HOLOKACorporal · July 22, 1966
- ROBERT LESTER KESSELLance Corporal · March 20, 1967
- RICHARD MARTIN SIETZPetty Officer Third Class · July 29, 1967
- JOHN FRANKLIN RIEGELPrivate First Class · December 19, 1967
- GARY WESLEY RUNKPrivate First Class · January 5, 1968
- LARRY THOMAS BRENTSpecialist Four · January 16, 1968
- GERARD JUDE SANDERSLance Corporal · July 5, 1968
- RALPH BURTON MITCHELLStaff Sergeant · August 7, 1970
- JOHN RUSSELL MILLERPrivate First Class · January 30, 1971
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.