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A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968.
A Navy corpsman treats a wounded Marine of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, in Huế, February 1968. Photo: Sgt. William F. Dickman, USMC, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Sigurd Martin Messer.

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SIGURD MARTIN MESSER

Hospitalman Apprentice · U.S. Navy

March 20, 1947 – July 10, 1967

Service record

Sigurd Martin Messer, of Eldridge, California, served as a Hospitalman Apprentice in the U.S. Navy. He died on July 10, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 44 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 23E · Line 44

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Hospitalman Apprentice (HA)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Hospital Corpsman (HM)
Unit (as recorded)
2 BN 1 MAR 1 MARDIV
Born
March 20, 1947
Home of record
Eldridge, California (Sonoma County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 10, 1967
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

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43 names on the Wall carry the date July 10, 1967; four of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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From Eldridge

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.