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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Robin Richard Annis.

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ROBIN RICHARD ANNIS

Private First Class · U.S. Army

March 16, 1948 – April 4, 1969

Service record

Robin Richard Annis, of Canoga Park, California, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 4, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 27W · Line 8

Position of Panel 27W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Private First Class (PFC)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
March 16, 1948
Home of record
Canoga Park, California (Los Angeles County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 4, 1969
Age
21
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date April 4, 1969; two 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 unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 36 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 27W, Line 8

From Canoga Park

All 23 names from Canoga Park →

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.