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WILLIAM EDGAR EDWARDS
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
January 24, 1936 – April 2, 1968
Service recordWilliam Edgar Edwards, of Glendale, South Carolina, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 2, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 47E, Line 39 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47E · Line 39
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- January 24, 1936
- Home of record
- Glendale, South Carolina (Spartanburg County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 2, 1968
- Age
- 32
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
34 names on the Wall carry the date April 2, 1968; eight of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47E, Line 39
- DAVID THOMAS CONNORSSpecialist Four · April 2, 1968
- DOUGLAS LEE HARRISONCorporal · April 2, 1968
- ARCHIE ANDREW HAYMANCaptain · April 2, 1968
- GENE JAY HOWARDSpecialist Five · April 2, 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.