Matthew Higgins
HHC 1/22 Infantry
4th Infantry Division
KIA 03/14/1967
Army - PFC - E3
Age: 21
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Male
Date of Birth Feb 15, 1946
From: PHILADELPHIA, PA
Religion: 7TH DAY ADVENTIST
Marital Status: Single
PFC - E3 - Army - Selective Service
4th Infantry Division
MOS: 91A10 Medical Corpsman
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Feb 22, 1967
Casualty was on Mar 14, 1967
In KONTUM, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
GUN, SMALL ARMS FIRE
Body was recovered
Panel 16E - Line 78
Matthew Higgins was killed in a
battle with NVA forces during Operation Sam Houston,
at grid reference YA600587, approximately 26 kilometers west of
Plei Djereng airfield.
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PFC Matthew Higgins' decorations
Jack Newell
Brother Viet Vet
Art was Higgins' life. "Buck"
Higgins graduated from Roxborough High School in 1966 and planned
to attend
Murrell Dobbins Vocational High School for commercial art that
September. He had won a Philadelphia Saving Fund Society award
for a poster he designed and painted shortly before he was
drafted into the Army in August 1966. The 21-year-old private
first class
trained as a medical corpsman and left for Vietnam in February
1967, where he was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters
Company
of the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry, 4th Infantry Division. The
young medic wrote home about the sick and starving
Montagnard highlander children for whom he cared. Higgins died
near the Cambodian border on March 14, 1967,
less than a month after arriving in Vietnam. He was survived by
his mother, stepfather, sister and two stepsisters.
Matthew lived on Granite Street, in the Frankford section of
Philadelphia.
Source: Philadelphia Daily News
10/26/1987
Friday, December 05, 2003
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, March 18, 1967
Newspaper clipping by Sjb from the Find
A Grave website
BURIAL
Northwood Cemetery
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Grave marker for Matthew Higgins Photo by Carol Reynolds |
For a tribute to PFC Matthew Higgins click on the following link:
Top photo courtesy of Jack Newell
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