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RICHARD J ROUGHGARDEN
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
August 19, 1943 – September 14, 1969
Service recordRichard J Roughgarden, of Hawthorne, New Jersey, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 14, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 86 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 86
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Construction Engineer (7110)
- Unit (as recorded)
- HHC 46 ENG BN 159 ENG GRP 20 ENG BDE
- Born
- August 19, 1943
- Home of record
- Hawthorne, New Jersey (Passaic County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 14, 1969
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date September 14, 1969; three of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 18W, Line 86
- TONY EUGENE SCOGGINSSpecialist Four · September 14, 1969
- JAMES ELVIN SCOTTLance Corporal · September 14, 1969
- JOHN PATRICK SHANNON JRSpecialist Four · September 14, 1969
- DONALD SIDNEY SKIDGELSergeant · September 14, 1969
From Hawthorne
- WILLIAM GEORGE DUTCHESLance Corporal · June 14, 1966
- RAYMOND ALLAN RENZSpecialist Four · June 2, 1967
- DENIS LAVERN SIMONEPetty Officer Second Class · October 23, 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.