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THOMAS REGINALD COWLEY
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 10, 1934 – August 28, 1966
Service recordThomas Reginald Cowley, of Lorain, Ohio, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on August 28, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 10E, Line 53 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10E · Line 53
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- June 10, 1934
- Home of record
- Lorain, Ohio (Lorain County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 28, 1966
- Age
- 32
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Infectious Disease
Context · from the records
What was happening
16 names on the Wall carry the date August 28, 1966. In August 1966, 501 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 84 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 10E, Line 53
- ROBERT CURTIS BORTON JRGunnery Sergeant · August 28, 1966
- SAMUEL WALTER BREWERStaff Sergeant · August 28, 1966
- DENNIS RAY CARTERStaff Sergeant · August 28, 1966
- WILLIAM ARTHUR FINKELLance Corporal · August 28, 1966
Same unit, same day
- VICTOR M TOSADO-HERNANDEZPrivate First Class · Panel 10E, Line 55
From Lorain
- RAYMOND ELLSWORTH RUPCICFirst Lieutenant · April 6, 1965
- DONALD RAYMOND BONKOCaptain · November 26, 1965
- RONALD RALICHPrivate First Class · May 29, 1966
- RAYMOND HODOROWSKILance Corporal · March 6, 1967
- GEORGE WILLIAM MCDANIELPrivate First Class · April 29, 1967
- JOSE HECTOR ORTIZPrivate First Class · June 28, 1967
- LARRY EDWARD FIELDSLance Corporal · July 14, 1967
- BRUCE BERNARD LIVINGSTONLance Corporal · September 2, 1967
- ROBERT JOSEPH NAGYPrivate First Class · October 17, 1967
- PAUL JUNIOR MYERSPrivate First Class · February 5, 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.