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ROBERT NATHANIEL LATIMER
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 22, 1943 – June 8, 1969
Service recordRobert Nathaniel Latimer, of Stone Park, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 8, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 112 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23W · Line 112
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- December 22, 1943
- Home of record
- Stone Park, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 8, 1969
- Age
- 25
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date June 8, 1969; 15 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 23W, Line 112
- SHARON ANN LANEFirst Lieutenant · June 8, 1969
- MALCOLM FRANCIS LEGERPrivate First Class · June 8, 1969
- JOHN EDWARD LORENCECorporal · June 8, 1969
- THOMAS WILLIAM STRATHMANNCorporal · June 8, 1969
From Stone Park
- ROBERT HAL CORLEYCorporal · March 19, 1966
- WILLIAM JOHN SCHULTZPrivate First Class · August 20, 1966
- RONNIE LEN RUSSELLPrivate First Class · October 28, 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.