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TIMOTHY ROBERT KESSLER
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 10, 1947 – January 15, 1968
Service recordTimothy Robert Kessler, of Hammond, Indiana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 15, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 34E, Line 54 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34E · Line 54
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 10, 1947
- Home of record
- Hammond, Indiana (Lake County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 15, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date January 15, 1968; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 12 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34E, Line 54
- CHARLES WILLIAM IRBYSpecialist Four · January 15, 1968
- JOSEPH LEROY LONGPrivate First Class · January 15, 1968
- ERNEST TYRONE MARTINSergeant First Class · January 15, 1968
- ROBERT MATHIASLance Corporal · January 15, 1968
Same unit, same day
- RICHARD L MILLERSpecialist Four · Panel 34E, Line 55
From Hammond
- DONALD RAY VINSONSergeant · July 14, 1965
- JAMES EDMUND KEELERCorporal · March 19, 1966
- BENNY EDWARD FOSTERPrivate First Class · May 26, 1966
- JAMES RONALD SECHRESTPrivate First Class · August 15, 1966
- GARY STEPHEN EDWARDSSpecialist Four · January 20, 1967
- HENRY JOSEPH MARKOWSKI JRPrivate First Class · April 8, 1967
- WILLIAM EUGENE CZARNYLance Corporal · May 9, 1967
- BERNARD MERLE LUSKPrivate First Class · August 28, 1967
- WAYNE ALLEN MICHALAKAirman · February 4, 1968
- STEVE WILLIAM LEWICKISpecialist Four · February 12, 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.