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RICHARD STEPHEN MOXLEY
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 9, 1946 – August 29, 1968
Service recordRichard Stephen Moxley, of Watertown, Massachusetts, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 29, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 46W, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46W · Line 61
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- September 9, 1946
- Home of record
- Watertown, Massachusetts (Middlesex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 29, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
54 names on the Wall carry the date August 29, 1968; 27 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 46W, Line 61
- DAVID VERNON MCCOLLUMPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- ROBERT JAMES MCDONOUGHPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- LOUIS CHARLES MOOREPrivate First Class · August 29, 1968
- MICHAEL LEO NATHEFirst Lieutenant · August 29, 1968
From Watertown
- JOHN ROBERT JOHNSONPrivate First Class · November 3, 1966
- JOHN HERBERT MORENOSergeant · March 1, 1968
- JOHN JOSEPH SULLIVANPrivate First Class · March 8, 1968
- WILLIAM KENNETH REGANSergeant · July 7, 1968
- PAUL JAMES GORMANPrivate First Class · July 30, 1968
- PAUL JOSEPH SULLIVANFirst Lieutenant · August 9, 1968
- FREDERICK E HARRINGTON JRCorporal · October 22, 1968
- JAMES PATRICK CASEYWarrant Officer 1 · May 18, 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.