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ROBERT LEWIS TREVATHAN
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
January 18, 1949 – April 15, 1968
Service recordRobert Lewis Trevathan, of Union City, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 15, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 50E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50E · Line 9
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- January 18, 1949
- Home of record
- Union City, Tennessee (Obion County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 15, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
37 names on the Wall carry the date April 15, 1968; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 50E, Line 9
- STEVEN DEAN SMITHPrivate First Class · April 15, 1968
- DENNIS RAY THORPESergeant · April 15, 1968
- JAMES ALLAN TREMBLAYPrivate First Class · April 15, 1968
- JOHN EDWARD WALTERSSpecialist Four · April 15, 1968
From Union City
- JAMES WILFORD COLLINSPrivate First Class · July 27, 1966
- JAMES WAYNE CHAMBERSSergeant · September 17, 1967
- RICHARD CLIVE LANNOMLieutenant · March 1, 1968
- JERRY LYNN ANDREWSPrivate First Class · May 11, 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.