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WALTER GENE MERVIN ELLIS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 4, 1947 – March 21, 1967
Service recordWalter Gene Mervin Ellis, of Palatka, Florida, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1967, in Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 2
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 CAV DIV AIRMOBILE
- Born
- December 4, 1947
- Home of record
- Palatka, Florida (Putnam County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Binh Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
95 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1967; 16 of them were lost in Bình Định Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), his unit in the record, lost 120 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 2
- THOMAS MCCLURE ELLIOTTSpecialist Four · March 21, 1967
- CHARLES ROBERT EMORYFirst Lieutenant · March 21, 1967
- TONIE LEE ENGLAND JRCaptain · March 21, 1967
- CHARLES RAY GOODWINPrivate First Class · March 21, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROBERT ALLAN BRIEDSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 130
- ROBERT MICHAEL CARTWRIGHTSpecialist Four · Panel 16E, Line 130
- JAN JOSEPH GRABOWSKI JRPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 3
- JACK DENNIS HANGERSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 4
- ROBERT LEE HENDERSONPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 4
- DANIEL JENNINGS HOLCOMBSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 5
- JOE RITCHARD JORDANSergeant · Panel 17E, Line 6
- PETER SWINNERTON LARSONCaptain · Panel 17E, Line 6
- HENRY C LEEStaff Sergeant · Panel 17E, Line 7
- PHILIP AARON MCNINCHPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 10
- ROBERT EGMEDIO OCAMPOPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 11
- ROBERT MERRITT PINNELL JRSergeant · Panel 17E, Line 12
- STEPHEN DONALD PLEASANTPrivate First Class · Panel 17E, Line 12
- RAY ANTHONY RHODESSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 12
- FREDERICK WILLIAM SEPUTSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 13
From Palatka
- WILLIAM DAVID HOWSA RAGINCaptain · August 20, 1964
- HENRY ALBERT DEUTSCHCaptain · May 11, 1965
- KENNETH RAY HORNEPrivate First Class · February 12, 1966
- WILLIAM YOUNGPrivate First Class · December 9, 1966
- DAVID FRANK BURNEYPrivate First Class · November 6, 1967
- EUGENE SMALLPrivate · March 20, 1968
- GRAT ALBERT KEENECorporal · March 31, 1968
- HERBERT HOOVER SWEAT JRCorporal · February 21, 1969
- EDWARD BRAXTON FULGHAM JRPrivate First Class · June 23, 1969
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.