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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Stuart Bassett Lamkin.

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STUART BASSETT LAMKIN

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

January 17, 1943 – March 10, 1970

Service record

Stuart Bassett Lamkin, of Salt Lake City, Utah, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 10, 1970, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 13W, Line 105 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 13W · Line 105

Position of Panel 13W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Tank Unit Commander (1203)
Unit (as recorded)
11 ARMORED CAV
Born
January 17, 1943
Home of record
Salt Lake City, Utah (Salt Lake County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 10, 1970
Age
27
Province
Tay Ninh
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Drowning

Context · from the records

What was happening

38 names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1970; six of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1970, 625 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 13W, Line 105

Same unit, same day

From Salt Lake City

All 123 names from Salt Lake City →

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.