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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Reginald William Jones.

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REGINALD WILLIAM JONES

Private First Class · U.S. Army

July 26, 1944 – June 21, 1969

Service record

Reginald William Jones, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 21, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22W · Line 105

Position of Panel 22W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Field Artillery Basic (13A)
Unit (as recorded)
1 INF DIV
Born
July 26, 1944
Home of record
Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Forsyth County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 21, 1969
Age
24
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

45 names on the Wall carry the date June 21, 1969; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 60 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 22W, Line 105

Same unit, same day

From Winston-Salem

All 41 names from Winston-Salem →

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.