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Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965.
Australian, American, South Vietnamese and Korean soldiers at the Đức Mỹ Ranger Training Center, December 1965. Photo: SP5 Allan K. Holm, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robert Louis Gardner.

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ROBERT LOUIS GARDNER

Sergeant · U.S. Army

July 1, 1922 – June 13, 1962

Service record

Robert Louis Gardner, of Nashua, New Hampshire, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 13, 1962, in South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 9

Position of Panel 1E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Small Arms/Artillery Repairer (45B)
Unit (as recorded)
MACV ADVISORS
Born
July 1, 1922
Home of record
Nashua, New Hampshire (Hillsborough County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 13, 1962
Age
39
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Small Arms Fire

Context · from the records

What was happening

One name on the Wall carry the date June 13, 1962. In June 1962, 3 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 9

From Nashua

All 18 names from Nashua →

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.