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ROLAND NATHANIEL BARNABY
Specialist Five · U.S. Army
September 12, 1948 – July 12, 1968
Service recordRoland Nathaniel Barnaby, of Ft Benning, Georgia, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on July 12, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 52W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 52W · Line 17
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
- Specialist Five (SP5)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Radio Repairer (31E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 SIGNAL BDE
- Born
- September 12, 1948
- Home of record
- Ft Benning, Georgia (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 12, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date July 12, 1968; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 52W, Line 17
- RONALD JOE TEBBESergeant · July 11, 1968
- RANDALL NAVE ARNEYFirst Lieutenant · July 12, 1968
- JAMES LEROY BROWNLance Corporal · July 12, 1968
- FRANK REGINALD CAUTHENCorporal · July 12, 1968
From Ft Benning
- JAMES LANE TALLEYSergeant · June 19, 1964
- MILES HENRY NELSONFirst Lieutenant · February 11, 1967
- DAVID ARTHUR PURSERCorporal · March 16, 1968
- ROBERT HELM WOODCorporal · April 9, 1968
- DONALD WILLIAM BROWNCorporal · August 23, 1968
- FRED ORR JACKSON JRCaptain · September 5, 1969
- FRANKLIN LEE WEISNERMajor · October 10, 1969
- LEONARD THOMAS HIGDONCaptain · May 21, 1970
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.