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THOMAS H WELSH
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
January 17, 1930 – May 16, 1966
Service recordThomas H Welsh, of Kearny, New Jersey, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 16, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 7E, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 7E · Line 66
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- January 17, 1930
- Home of record
- Kearny, New Jersey (Hudson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 16, 1966
- Age
- 36
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
14 names on the Wall carry the date May 16, 1966. In May 1966, 595 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 7E, Line 66
- PEKKA TRUNKHAHNSpecialist Four · May 16, 1966
- LOUIS G TURNERSergeant · May 16, 1966
- WILLIAM FREDRICK WILBERLance Corporal · May 16, 1966
- ARTIS WESLEY ANDERSONPrivate First Class · May 17, 1966
From Kearny
- THOMAS FRANK HORNBYCorporal · March 18, 1966
- GEORGE EDWARD MATUSCSAKPrivate First Class · August 8, 1966
- DAVID WILLIAM ROBERTSONSergeant · June 27, 1968
- MICHAEL WILLIAM SINIBALDICorporal · August 14, 1968
- MICHAEL FRANCIS BRANIN JRCorporal · November 13, 1968
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.