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ROY LESTER MEADOWS
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
November 8, 1928 – May 23, 1971
Service recordRoy Lester Meadows, of Ashburn, Georgia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 23, 1971, in Kien Phong Province, South Vietnam, at age 42. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3W · 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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- November 8, 1928
- Home of record
- Ashburn, Georgia (Turner County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 23, 1971
- Age
- 42
- Province
- Kien Phong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
Five names on the Wall carry the date May 23, 1971; he was the only one lost in Kien Phong Province that day. In May 1971, 202 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 3W, Line 53
- LARRY RICHARD DEWEYCaptain · May 24, 1971
- JIMMY DARREL HUMPHRESCorporal · May 24, 1971
- GERALD MARTIN LUBBEHUSENSpecialist Four · May 24, 1971
- JACKIE DEAN STOGSDILLPrivate · May 24, 1971
From Ashburn
- CHARLIE C WALKERPrivate First Class · March 16, 1966
- GEORGE T SWYMERSpecialist Four · March 3, 1968
- JAMES HENRY PRESLEYLance Corporal · June 2, 1968
- WILLIAM ROBERT SPEIGHTStaff Sergeant · August 22, 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.