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WILLIAM GARY NELMS JR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
April 22, 1950 – August 29, 1969
Service recordWilliam Gary Nelms JR, of Oxford, North Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on August 29, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 8 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 8
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Radio Telegraph Operator (2533)
- Born
- April 22, 1950
- Home of record
- Oxford, North Carolina (Granville County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 29, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date August 29, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In August 1969, 962 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 18W, Line 8
- CHARLES JOSEPH MACDONALDStaff Sergeant · August 29, 1969
- JAMES THOMAS MOSESSergeant · August 29, 1969
- EDWIN JOSEPH OLMEDAPrivate First Class · August 29, 1969
- MICHAEL PATRICK QUINNSecond Lieutenant · August 29, 1969
From Oxford
- JESSE L BRANDONSpecialist Four · March 1, 1967
- LEON THORNTONSergeant · May 18, 1967
- HUBERT ROYSTER JRSpecialist Four · January 7, 1968
- NORMAN EARL ROSE IIICorporal · February 7, 1968
- LONEY EVANS JRCorporal · October 5, 1968
- MELVIN GREEN JRSergeant First Class · May 12, 1969
- AMBROSE H BROOKS JRSpecialist Four · September 8, 1969
- EUGENE PAUL GEEStaff Sergeant · April 5, 1970
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.