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ROBERT KITTRIDGE VARICK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 21, 1947 – April 18, 1968
Service recordRobert Kittridge Varick, of Deerfield, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 18, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 42 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50E · Line 42
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- February 21, 1947
- Home of record
- Deerfield, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 18, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date April 18, 1968; ten of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 35 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 50E, Line 42
- GARY EDWARD RUSHASpecialist Four · April 18, 1968
- DONALD EUGENE SMRTNIKSergeant · April 18, 1968
- PAUL MATTHEW SPENCERLance Corporal · April 18, 1968
- JAN ALAN ULMERFirst Lieutenant · April 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- PAUL EDWIN ADAMSSpecialist Four · Panel 50E, Line 36
- MEL ROY BALLARDSergeant · Panel 50E, Line 36
- JERRY LEE BOYLESSpecialist Four · Panel 50E, Line 36
- THOMAS EDWARD CARNEGIEFirst Lieutenant · Panel 50E, Line 37
- SAMUEL PAIGE COWAN JRSpecialist Four · Panel 50E, Line 37
- DAVID WALTER DORRISPrivate First Class · Panel 50E, Line 37
- CECIL LAVON RENDERSpecialist Four · Panel 50E, Line 40
- ERNEST VETTER JRPrivate First Class · Panel 50E, Line 43
From Deerfield
- FRANZ JOSEPH KOLBECKPrivate First Class · March 4, 1966
- JOSEPH WILLIAM DEROSAPrivate First Class · April 14, 1967
- WILLIAM GREGORY LANDONPrivate First Class · May 26, 1967
- ROGER ZIMMERMANStaff Sergeant · May 10, 1968
- TIMOTHY PATRICK MCGUIRELance Corporal · May 27, 1968
- RALPH LEIGH BLAUVELTPrivate First Class · January 31, 1969
- ALLEN EDWIN OLSONSpecialist Five · February 20, 1969
- WILLIAM ERIC SCHAEFERPrivate First Class · May 12, 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.