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ROBERT MORRIS CHILDRESS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 29, 1947 – July 26, 1968
Service recordRobert Morris Childress, of Norristown, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 26, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 50W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 50W · Line 12
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- December 29, 1947
- Home of record
- Norristown, Pennsylvania (Montgomery County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 26, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date July 26, 1968; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 50W, Line 12
- HILLMAN GLEN CHAMBERSPrivate First Class · July 26, 1968
- THOMAS RAY COOK JRPrivate First Class · July 26, 1968
- MERLIN G CORNELIUS JRLance Corporal · July 26, 1968
- PERRY ROCCO CRISEPrivate First Class · July 26, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DONALD ALBERT JONESFirst Lieutenant · Panel 50W, Line 14
- RICHARD CHARLES MANNERYPrivate First Class · Panel 50W, Line 14
From Norristown
- ROBERT FRANCIS RONCAMajor · February 19, 1965
- WILLIAM RICHARD REESE JRPrivate First Class · June 25, 1966
- NICHOLAS JOSEPH FULMERSpecialist Four · November 12, 1966
- MICHAEL ALEXANDER BARONOWSKILance Corporal · November 29, 1966
- NILS ARDEN DRENNENPrivate First Class · March 12, 1967
- JOHN ELLWOOD SCHEETZPrivate First Class · May 17, 1967
- DANIEL WILLIAM BRADYLance Corporal · July 2, 1967
- WILLIE LEE JONES JRSpecialist Four · September 5, 1967
- DAVID BRAUCH LEFEVERCorporal · September 6, 1967
- JIMMIE LUE MCMORRISPrivate First Class · November 15, 1967
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.