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SINCLAIR BYRON LEWIS JR
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 29, 1949 – May 5, 1969
Service recordSinclair Byron Lewis JR, of Chicago, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 5, 1969, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25W · Line 6
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Food Service Specialist (94B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- March 29, 1949
- Home of record
- Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 5, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Died of other causes
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date May 5, 1969; two of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 20 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25W, Line 6
- RODNEY ALLEN HOHNCorporal · May 5, 1969
- LAFE INGRAMPrivate First Class · May 5, 1969
- ANTHONY BERNARD JONESPrivate First Class · May 5, 1969
- RICHARD LEON LASSITERPrivate First Class · May 5, 1969
From Chicago
- MELVIN LESTER WATERSPrivate · February 10, 1965
- WILLIAM RALPH FUHRMANPetty Officer Third Class · April 23, 1965
- RAYMOND LEON HORNCorporal · May 1, 1965
- ARTHUR C JEPSON JRCaptain · May 16, 1965
- DONALD CLAY DEDMONStaff Sergeant · June 10, 1965
- ROGER PELIKANLance Corporal · July 17, 1965
- HARRY COHENTechnical Sergeant · July 19, 1969
- CURTIS LOCKHARTPrivate First Class · July 30, 1965
- EDWARD KOPECPrivate First Class · August 18, 1965
- JAMES LEO WHITELance Corporal · August 19, 1965
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.