JERRY GLENN ERVIN

Battery B 4/42 Artillery

4th Infantry Division

KIA 03/08/1969

 

 

Age: 27
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Male
Date of Birth Feb 21, 1942
From: MEMPHIS, TN
Religion: BAPTIST
Marital Status: Married

CPL - E4 - Army - Regular
4th Infantry Division
Grade at loss: E3
Rank: Corporal
Note: Posthumous Promotion as indicated
MOS: 13A10: Field Artillery Basic
Length of service 1 years
His tour began on Jan 28, 1969
Casualty was on Mar 8, 1969
In KONTUM, SOUTH VIETNAM
Hostile, died of wounds, GROUND CASUALTY
ARTILLERY, ROCKET, or MORTAR
Body was recovered

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Jerry Ervin was wounded at an aircraft landing zone when it came under hostile mortar attack.
He was evacuated to a military medical facility where he later died.

 

 

 

CPL Jerry G. Ervin's decorations

 

 

 

 

 

Burial:
Parrans Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery
Bolivar
Hardeman County
Tennessee, USA

 

Cemetery monument for Jerry Ervin

Photo by Mike Daley from the Find A Grave website

 

 

 

Grave marker for Jerry Ervin

Photo by Mike Daley from the Find A Grave websit

 

 

 

 

 

 

Top photo from the Together We Served website

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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