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ROY LINDSEY RAMEY
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 17, 1947 – June 6, 1969
Service recordRoy Lindsey Ramey, of Huntington, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 6, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 91 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23W · Line 91
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- August 17, 1947
- Home of record
- Huntington, West Virginia (Multiple County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 6, 1969
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
65 names on the Wall carry the date June 6, 1969; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 70 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 23W, Line 91
- DANNY LYNN PARKERCorporal · June 6, 1969
- STEVEN JAY PHILBRICKPrivate · June 6, 1969
- JAMES FREDERICK PUARIEASergeant · June 6, 1969
- JOHN DAVID RHODES IIICorporal · June 6, 1969
Same unit, same day
- TERRANCE R MESENBURGSergeant · Panel 23W, Line 90
From Huntington
- GERALD BRUCE ROSESpecialist Five · February 22, 1965
- GLENN MCARTHUR LANEPetty Officer Second Class · October 26, 1965
- JACKIE L WAYMIRESergeant · January 9, 1967
- EMORY LE ROY TAYLORPrivate First Class · April 17, 1967
- RONALD KEITH NEALPetty Officer Third Class · April 21, 1967
- JOHNNY MALCOLM JOHNSONPrivate First Class · May 21, 1967
- JAMES RICHARD EMMERTSergeant · June 22, 1967
- WILLIAM EDWARD CRAFTSergeant First Class · September 25, 1967
- LESTER LEE MEADOWS JRSpecialist Four · September 29, 1967
- HARON LEE BROWN IIFirst Lieutenant · December 14, 1967
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.