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RONALD WALTER GULLEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 24, 1944 – October 8, 1965
Service recordRonald Walter Gulley, of Franklin, Illinois, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on October 8, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 112 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 112
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- January 24, 1944
- Home of record
- Franklin, Illinois (Morgan County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 8, 1965
- Age
- 21
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
12 names on the Wall carry the date October 8, 1965. In October 1965, 236 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 32 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 2E, Line 112
- RONALD MICHAEL DISTEFANOSpecialist Four · October 8, 1965
- LEON G HOLTONFirst Lieutenant · October 8, 1965
- JACKIE EUGENE HUFFPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
- RICHARD E LYNCHPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL GEORGE BRANCATOPrivate First Class · Panel 2E, Line 111
From Franklin
- DALE ALLEN LASHPetty Officer Third Class · October 12, 1967
- ROBERT LEE DODSWORTHPetty Officer Third Class · April 13, 1968
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.