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ROBERT ARTHUR BULMER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 29, 1947 – August 14, 1968
Service recordRobert Arthur Bulmer, of Ogdensburg, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 14, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48W · Line 11
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- November 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Ogdensburg, New Jersey (Sussex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 14, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
31 names on the Wall carry the date August 14, 1968; five of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 86 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 48W, Line 11
- RODRIGUEZ PEDRO J CAMACHOSpecialist Four · August 14, 1968
- GORDON EUGENE COLECorporal · August 14, 1968
- GARY LEE MALOYSpecialist Four · August 14, 1968
- HAROLD LEE WHITEPrivate First Class · August 14, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD MARTIN SAMORAYCorporal · Panel 48W, Line 15
- MICHAEL WILLIAM SINIBALDICorporal · Panel 48W, Line 15
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.