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ROBERT LEE TRISDALE
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
May 11, 1930 – April 26, 1969
Service recordRobert Lee Trisdale, of Gallatin, Tennessee, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 26, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 38. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 57 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 57
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- May 11, 1930
- Home of record
- Gallatin, Tennessee (Sumner County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 26, 1969
- Age
- 38
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date April 26, 1969; seven of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 59 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 26W, Line 57
- DAVID SCOLNICKPrivate First Class · April 26, 1969
- CHARLES ROBERT SINKPrivate First Class · April 26, 1969
- LARRY EUGENE SMITHPrivate First Class · April 26, 1969
- MARCUS WILLIAM STODDARDPrivate First Class · April 26, 1969
Same unit, same day
- LEO MEYERS BRELANDSpecialist Four · Panel 26W, Line 52
- JAMES DAVID BURNSSergeant · Panel 26W, Line 52
- JOHNNIE LEE GRAHAM JRPrivate First Class · Panel 26W, Line 54
- MARK STEVEN LENNONSpecialist Five · Panel 26W, Line 55
- RICKEY ALLEN PROCTORSpecialist Four · Panel 26W, Line 56
From Gallatin
- JOHN ROBERT PETTY JRChief Warrant Officer 2 · October 26, 1965
- LARRY DEAN HESSONSpecialist Four · March 3, 1967
- NELSON MONTAGUE ONEALCorporal · January 8, 1968
- PHILIP MARVIN CREWSSergeant · March 3, 1968
- DONALD LEE TEMPLETONCaptain · September 21, 1968
- GLENN STANFORD MILLERPrivate First Class · October 16, 1968
- ERIC THOMAS DUFFERPrivate First Class · March 1, 1969
- RALPH DAVID MCMURTRYSpecialist Four · April 13, 1969
- OLLIE EDWARD CRENSHAW JRSpecialist Four · March 29, 1972
- RONALD DWIGHT PERRYCaptain · December 20, 1972
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.