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RONALD IRVING KIRKPATRICK
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
February 17, 1945 – July 16, 1969
Service recordRonald Irving Kirkpatrick, of Augusta, Maine, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 16, 1969, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 20W, Line 7 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20W · Line 7
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Radio Operator (05B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- February 17, 1945
- Home of record
- Augusta, Maine (Kennebec County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 16, 1969
- Age
- 24
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date July 16, 1969. In July 1969, 834 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20W, Line 7
- DARRELL VON HURTSpecialist Four · July 16, 1969
- JOHNNY LEE KIDDSpecialist Four · July 16, 1969
- JESSIE ROY LEWISPrivate First Class · July 16, 1969
- RODGER DENNIS MCELHANEYPrivate First Class · July 16, 1969
From Augusta
- RICHARD W ARNOLDSpecialist Six · March 13, 1966
- EDWIN MATTI KAHKONEN JRLance Corporal · October 29, 1967
- GREGORY CORNELIUS QUINNPrivate First Class · November 16, 1967
- GILBERT STEVENS BELL JRSergeant · December 13, 1968
- RAYMOND JOSEPH BECHARDStaff Sergeant · March 9, 1969
- NORMAN JOSEPH CHAVARIECorporal · July 21, 1969
- GILBERT CRAIG TURNER JRStaff Sergeant · September 6, 1969
- CHRISTOPHER J CHILDS IIISpecialist Five · May 9, 1970
- RICHARD JAMES GOGGINSergeant · April 26, 1971
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.