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RONALD EUGENE KNIGHT
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 5, 1949 – July 3, 1969
Service recordRonald Eugene Knight, of Shippenville, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on July 3, 1969, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 21W, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21W · Line 53
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 5, 1949
- Home of record
- Shippenville, Pennsylvania (Clarion County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 3, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date July 3, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 21W, Line 53
- RICHARD JOHN KEYSpecialist Four · July 3, 1969
- DONNIE LUSTER KINGPrivate First Class · July 3, 1969
- ROBERT EARL KINGPrivate First Class · July 3, 1969
- FRANK LOUIS KOBORSergeant · July 3, 1969
- JERRY WAYNE POFFSpecialist Four · July 3, 1969
Same unit, same day
- FELIPE OBED SANTIAGOPrivate First Class · Panel 21W, Line 56
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.