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ROYCE EDSEL EDDLEMAN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
January 16, 1948 – April 21, 1968
Service recordRoyce Edsel Eddleman, of Simpsonville, South Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 21, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 51E, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 51E · Line 19
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- January 16, 1948
- Home of record
- Simpsonville, South Carolina (Greenville County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 21, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date April 21, 1968; 17 of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 189 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 51E, Line 19
- RONALD PHILIP DEANPrivate First Class · April 21, 1968
- NEIL HARRIS EXUMPrivate First Class · April 21, 1968
- ROBERT DOUGLAS FULKERSINSergeant · April 21, 1968
- DOMINGO RAUL GONZALESStaff Sergeant · April 21, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL BYRON ALVAREZPrivate First Class · Panel 51E, Line 15
- GERALD COHENStaff Sergeant · Panel 51E, Line 17
- PETER EDWARD CONLINSergeant · Panel 51E, Line 17
- ROBERT LEONARD JOHNSON JRPrivate First Class · Panel 51E, Line 17
- RONALD DEVONE GRIFFINPrivate First Class · Panel 51E, Line 20
- THOMAS MARVIN HOLCOMBEPrivate First Class · Panel 51E, Line 21
- CHARLES WAYNE REBERGSergeant · Panel 51E, Line 24
- DAVID SOQUI URIASStaff Sergeant · Panel 51E, Line 26
- FELIX VAZQUEZ JRSpecialist Four · Panel 51E, Line 26
From Simpsonville
- DICKIE OWENS NELSONSergeant · April 28, 1968
- HILBURN M BURDETTE JRSergeant · July 12, 1970
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.