THOMAS ANDREW MARCHUT

Company C 1/22 Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 02/05/1968

Age: 20
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Male
Date of Birth Dec 3, 1947
From: SAYREVILLE, NJ
Religion: ROMAN CATHOLIC
Marital Status: Single

PFC - E3 - Army - Selective Service
4th Infantry Division
MOS: 11B10: Infantryman
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Dec 15, 1967
Casualty was on Feb 5, 1968
In KONTUM, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
MULTIPLE FRAGMENTATION WOUNDS
Body was recovered

Panel 37E - Line 39

Thomas Marchut was killed in action during the Battle of Kontum City, Tet Offensive 1968,
at grid reference AR797917, approximately 3 kilometers north/northeast of Kontum airfield.

PFC Thomas A. Marchut's decorations

Thomas is also eligible to receive
the Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster
and Vietnam Service Medal
from the State of New Jersey

Thomas Marchut in Vietnam

Photo courtesy of Fred Childs Company C 1/22 Infantry 1967-1968

Obituary for Thomas Marchut

Courtesy of Thomas's cousin
Christine Kwiatkowski

Thomas attended Sayreville War Memorial High School.

Thomas is buried at Saint Stanislaus Cemetery, Sayerville, NJ

The family headstone for the Marchut family.
Thomas was preceded in death by his father and mother.

Photo courtesy of Walt Nowak, a good friend of Thomas Marchut in school.

Grave marker for Thomas Andrew Marchut
(the inscription is incorrect - Andrew was Thomas Marchut's middle name)

Photo courtesy of Walt Nowak, a good friend of Thomas Marchut in school.

This is the street in Sayreville named after Thomas Marchut.

Photo courtesy of Walt Nowak, a good friend of Thomas Marchut in school.

This is the plaque on the Sayreville Vietnam Veterans Memorial
in Sayerville, New Jersey

Thomas Marchut's name is inscribed third from the bottom.

Photo courtesy of Walt Nowak, a good friend of Thomas Marchut in school.

Thomas Marchut's name is engraved on the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Photo from the DistantCousin.com website

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