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SIM HENRY RIGGINS JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
December 12, 1946 – July 19, 1966
Service recordSim Henry Riggins JR, of Newark, New Jersey, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 19, 1966, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 9E, Line 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 9E · Line 43
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- December 12, 1946
- Home of record
- Newark, New Jersey (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- July 19, 1966
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
46 names on the Wall carry the date July 19, 1966; three of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1966, 562 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 9E, Line 43
- JOSE C GOSSESpecialist Four · July 19, 1966
- BERNARD ALAN GREENPlatoon Sergeant · July 19, 1966
- PHILIP HENRY RATHEFirst Lieutenant · July 19, 1966
- TURNER L THOMPSON JRCorporal · July 19, 1966
From Newark
- KELLY KARL HEINZEStaff Sergeant · August 24, 1965
- LEROY WILLIAMS JRPrivate First Class · October 3, 1965
- RICHARD BURGANSPrivate First Class · October 5, 1965
- SCIP TATESpecialist Four · November 8, 1965
- ROBERT GOINESSergeant · December 5, 1965
- JOHN PRESTON GREENESpecialist Four · December 5, 1965
- WESTOVEL VENABLEPrivate First Class · January 25, 1966
- ROY RANSOM ALLENPrivate First Class · March 21, 1966
- ARNOLD WOODSONSpecialist Four · April 5, 1966
- DONALD EDWIN SIEGWARTHLieutenant (junior grade) · June 17, 1966
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.