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WILLIAM RUFUS SPEIGHT
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 27, 1949 – May 19, 1970
Service recordWilliam Rufus Speight, of Stantonsburg, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 19, 1970, in Hua Nghia Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 67 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10W · Line 67
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
- Light Air Defense Artillery Crewmember (16F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- November 27, 1949
- Home of record
- Stantonsburg, North Carolina (Wilson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 19, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Hua Nghia
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date May 19, 1970; two of them were lost in Hua Nghia Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 16 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 10W, Line 67
- JOHN SPURGEON SPREWELLCaptain · May 19, 1970
- LARRY EVANS STONESpecialist Five · May 19, 1970
- THOMAS PAUL TALBOTSpecialist Four · May 19, 1970
- ROBERT JOHN URBASSIKSpecialist Four · May 19, 1970
From Stantonsburg
- CHARLIE VANCE THOMPSONPrivate First Class · June 18, 1968
- WILLIAM JAMES WARD JRCorporal · April 15, 1971
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.