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TED LAVERN EDWARDS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
September 17, 1947 – May 28, 1967
Service recordTed Lavern Edwards, of Nottingham, Pennsylvania, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 28, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 21E, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 21E · Line 4
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
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- September 17, 1947
- Home of record
- Nottingham, Pennsylvania (Chester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 28, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
28 names on the Wall carry the date May 28, 1967; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 21E, Line 4
- JOHN JOSEPH FINNEGANPrivate First Class · May 28, 1967
- RALPH PRESTON FLINT JRLance Corporal · May 28, 1967
- BILLY LEON HAMMONTREEStaff Sergeant · May 28, 1967
- MICHAEL NATHANIEL HARLEYSpecialist Four · May 28, 1967
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.