The Wall › Panel 55W › Michigan › Richard Alfred Jones
RICHARD ALFRED JONES
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 19, 1949 – June 24, 1968
Service recordRichard Alfred Jones, of Morenci, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 24, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 55W, Line 29 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 55W · Line 29
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.
Remember
Did you know him? Family members and friends are invited to share a photograph or a memory. Nothing is posted until it has been reviewed.
Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Engineer Equipment Operator (1345)
- Born
- January 19, 1949
- Home of record
- Morenci, Michigan (Lenawee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 24, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date June 24, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 55W, Line 29
- JOHN ARTHUR LAFFERTYSergeant · June 24, 1968
- ANDREW ALPHONSO LANGCorporal · June 24, 1968
- JAMES FRANK MEGAPrivate First Class · June 24, 1968
- KENT FROEMMING MILLERMajor · June 24, 1968
From Morenci
- GARY ALAN TEETERLance Corporal · January 8, 1968
- GARY LYNN KLINGLERSpecialist Four · August 30, 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.