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ROBERT LEE BARKER JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 6, 1948 – April 6, 1968
Service recordRobert Lee Barker JR, of Esparto, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 6, 1968, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 23
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Pioneer (12A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- C CO 19 ENG BN USARV
- Born
- May 6, 1948
- Home of record
- Esparto, California (Yolo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 6, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
79 names on the Wall carry the date April 6, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “C CO 19 ENG BN USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 48E, Line 23
- RONALD MARVIN BEECKSpecialist Four · April 6, 1968
- ROBERT JOHN BENSONPrivate First Class · April 6, 1968
- JAMES TERRELL BLALOCKPrivate First Class · April 6, 1968
- LEE ANDREW BOWDENSergeant · April 6, 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.