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REX DEWEY MORELOCK JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 21, 1950 – June 14, 1969
Service recordRex Dewey Morelock JR, of North Plains, Oregon, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 14, 1969, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 51
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
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- July 21, 1950
- Home of record
- North Plains, Oregon (Washington County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 14, 1969
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date June 14, 1969; he was the only one lost in Kien Hoa Province that day. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 22W, Line 51
- JEFF HAROLD UPPSpecialist Four · June 14, 1969
- DONALD LAVOYCE BRIGHTMANSpecialist Five · June 15, 1969
- VALERIANO DAVID CONTRERASSergeant · June 15, 1969
- EDWARD CHARLES FANNINGPrivate First Class · June 15, 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.