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ROGER PRESBORN KELLER
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 17, 1947 – March 22, 1968
Service recordRoger Presborn Keller, of Conover, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on March 22, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 56
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- November 17, 1947
- Home of record
- Conover, North Carolina (Catawba County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 22, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
43 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1968; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 23 of its members that month.
Read the history
Also on Panel 45E, Line 56
- BILL WAYNE GRANTSpecialist Five · March 22, 1968
- DONALD EDWARD GREENSpecialist Four · March 22, 1968
- JOHN JOSEPH GROHMANGunnery Sergeant · March 22, 1968
- JEFFREY GILES HAMILTONFirst Lieutenant · March 22, 1968
From Conover
- REGINALD ALLAN MUNDYFirst Lieutenant · August 30, 1967
- HARRY JAMES BOSTONSpecialist Four · January 15, 1968
- CHARLES AVERY DELLINGERPrivate First Class · January 29, 1968
- VERNON EUGENE LAIL JRSpecialist Four · March 3, 1969
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.