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THOMAS ALLERTON MEADE
Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps
October 17, 1947 – February 6, 1968
Service recordThomas Allerton Meade, of Orange, New Jersey, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on February 6, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 37E, Line 62 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 37E · Line 62
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Administrative Man (0141)
- Born
- October 17, 1947
- Home of record
- Orange, New Jersey (Essex County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 6, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
147 names on the Wall carry the date February 6, 1968; four of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In February 1968, 2,260 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 37E, Line 62
- GORDON BRUCE MATTHEWSFirst Lieutenant · February 6, 1968
- ALONZO EARL MAYHALLSergeant · February 6, 1968
- ROBERT FRANK MEGLIOLieutenant Commander · February 6, 1968
- MICHAEL DRENNEN MILBURNLance Corporal · February 6, 1968
From Orange
- WILLIAM RUSSELL BURTON JRPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- THOMAS ROGER DEVLINSpecialist Four · January 28, 1966
- DONALD LEE JOHNSONSpecialist Four · June 3, 1966
- FRANKLIN CHARLES EUCKERPrivate First Class · July 24, 1966
- ANTHONY DERIGGISpecialist Four · September 8, 1966
- FERDINAND JOSEPH QUATRONESergeant First Class · November 1, 1967
- ERNEST D FUNICELLI JRCorporal · November 3, 1967
- WILLIAM L HOLLAND JRPrivate · March 12, 1968
- WILLIAM HURLE SATTERFIELDLance Corporal · February 23, 1969
- ROBERT JAMES MANIASSpecialist Four · July 10, 1971
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.