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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Jameison Reginald.

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ROBERT JAMEISON REGINALD

Corporal · U.S. Army

December 25, 1946 – October 28, 1967

Service record

Robert Jameison Reginald, of Lindenhurst, New York, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on October 28, 1967, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 28E, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 28E · Line 93

Position of Panel 28E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
101 AIRBORNE DIV
Born
December 25, 1946
Home of record
Lindenhurst, New York (Suffolk County)

Casualty

Date of death
October 28, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date October 28, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 81 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 28E, Line 93

Same unit, same day

From Lindenhurst

All 14 names from Lindenhurst →

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.