ALBERT ALLEN BEAUCHAMP

Company B 1/22 Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 03/16/1969

Age: 24
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Male
Date of Birth Sep 7, 1944
From: DETROIT, MI
Religion: METHODIST
Marital Status: Single

CPL - E4 - Army - Regular
Grade at loss: E3
Rank: Corporal
Note: Posthumous Promotion as indicated
4th Infantry Division
MOS: 11B10: Infantryman
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Nov 9, 1968
Casualty was on Mar 16, 1969
In KONTUM, SOUTH VIETNAM
NON-HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
Body was recovered

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Albert Beauchamp died near LZ Robyn, grid reference ZB009038, approximately
19 kilometers south of Dak To. His death was classified as a suicide.
Casualty report location was YB 909017, or, VICINITY OF LZ ROBYN,
24 KM SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF DAK TO CITY 19690316.

CPL Albert A. Beauchamp's decorations

Allen Beauchamp as a Sophomore in High School 1961

Allen lived across the street from me and my family. He was my first friend when we moved to Redford.

His father sustained severe leg injuries while serving as a French Freedom Fighter, during WW II.
I think we were sophomores when his father accidently died, due in part to the lost mobility.

He was the only son and the last surviving male of his entire family. We talked a number of times about him going to war,
as he had the chance to avoid the conflict. He too wanted to serve, as his father had. He would say this while reminising
on the pain, suffering and lost mobility of his father.

Sometimes I wonder if there is synchronicity, where there may be interconnections between unfolding events.
This may be one of those moments, as I received this notification on the day Allen went to war,
November 9, 1968, 45 years ago today.

With the memory of previously standing before his name, at the Vietnam War Memorial, I pray for Allen,
his father, mother and sister. May they rest in peace.

Tribute by John Rowlson

from the Lee M. Thurston High School Class Of 1963 website

Albert is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit, Michigan

Grave marker for Allen Beauchamp

Photo courtesy of Jen Combs

Top photo from the Lee M. Thurston High School Class Of 1963 website

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