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WILLIAM CLARENCE ROUSE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 19, 1947 – September 3, 1967
Service recordWilliam Clarence Rouse, of Stewartsville, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 3, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 25E, Line 93 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 25E · Line 93
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
- Medical Specialist (91B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- May 19, 1947
- Home of record
- Stewartsville, Ohio (Belmont County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 3, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — Passenger (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
20 names on the Wall carry the date September 3, 1967. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 25 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 25E, Line 93
- RICKY PALMER MATTERNWarrant Officer 1 · September 3, 1967
- JIMMY GENE MAYFIELDCorporal · September 3, 1967
- HERBERT WILLIAM MOORE JRMajor · September 3, 1967
- JOSEPH MICHAEL SALVOSpecialist Four · September 3, 1967
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM LON LOCKHARTSpecialist Four · Panel 25E, Line 92
- JOSEPH MICHAEL SALVOSpecialist Four · Panel 25E, Line 93
From Stewartsville
- VERNON WEBB CHRISTIAN JRSergeant · August 20, 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.