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RONALD RAY WARD
Private First Class · U.S. Army
December 11, 1949 – May 23, 1969
Service recordRonald Ray Ward, of Haysville, Kansas, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 23, 1969, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 88
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)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 11, 1949
- Home of record
- Haysville, Kansas (Sedgwick County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 23, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date May 23, 1969; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 15 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 88
- EDWARD MENDEZ-QUINTANASpecialist Four · May 23, 1969
- ROY C NEWSOMESpecialist Four · May 23, 1969
- JOHN DAVID OLENICKSergeant · May 23, 1969
- WILLIAM WHITBY OLSENSergeant · May 23, 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.