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REX CHARLES ALLRED
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 10, 1949 – May 13, 1969
Service recordRex Charles Allred, of Ventura, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 13, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 92 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 92
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- November 10, 1949
- Home of record
- Ventura, California (Ventura County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 13, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
112 names on the Wall carry the date May 13, 1969; five of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 92
- ROGER EDSON WOOSTERPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
- DENNIS HAROLD WRIGHTPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
- JOHN MARSHALL YEATTSCaptain · May 12, 1969
- BOBBY JOE YEWELLSpecialist Four · May 12, 1969
Same unit, same day
- JAMES LEE BLANTON JRPrivate First Class · Panel 25W, Line 94
- THOMAS EUGENE FOSTERSergeant · Panel 25W, Line 99
- PAUL VENON GOODWINCorporal · Panel 25W, Line 100
- JOHN ANTHONY PEREZSpecialist Four · Panel 25W, Line 109
From Ventura
- JAMES CLETUS DYESeaman Recruit · May 29, 1964
- MICHAEL PERRY MORITZSpecialist Five · June 16, 1965
- ROBERT LOUIS PADILLASergeant · May 17, 1966
- DONALD EARL GOREPrivate First Class · June 26, 1966
- CREIGHTON ROBERT DUNNSpecialist Four · October 29, 1966
- JOHN EDWARD WIDENERPrivate First Class · December 11, 1966
- KENNETH CHARLES APPLEGATESpecialist Four · April 30, 1967
- FRANK ROSS ALLENDER JRLance Corporal · July 3, 1967
- SIEGFRIED KOFLERSergeant · July 10, 1967
- DONALD MELVIN SEWELLColonel · November 9, 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.