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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 Thomas Edward Kingsley.

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THOMAS EDWARD KINGSLEY

Corporal · U.S. Army

March 6, 1947 – March 20, 1971

Service record

Thomas Edward Kingsley, of Toledo, Ohio, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on March 20, 1971, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 4W, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 4W · Line 61

Position of Panel 4W 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
Corporal (CPL)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
Born
March 6, 1947
Home of record
Toledo, Ohio (Lucas County)

Casualty

Date of death
March 20, 1971
Age
24
Province
Bien Hoa
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

Context · from the records

What was happening

17 names on the Wall carry the date March 20, 1971; four of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In March 1971, 429 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 31 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 4W, Line 61

Same unit, same day

From Toledo

All 118 names from Toledo →

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.