JAMES DANIEL MC KELVEY
Battery B 4/42 Artillery
4th Infantry Division
KIA 05/27/1968
Age: 21
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Male
Date of Birth May 9, 1947
From: FLORENCE, AL
Religion: METHODIST
Marital Status: Married
PFC - E3 - Army - Selective Service
4th Infantry Division
MOS: 13A10: Field Artillery Basic
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Mar 1, 1968
Casualty was on May 27, 1968
In KONTUM, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
ARTILLERY, ROCKET, or MORTAR
Body was recovered
Panel 65W - Line 12
James McKelvey was killed in
action while on Operation Mathews,
during an enemy mortar barrage against FSB Brillo Pad, at grid
reference YA963855,
approximately 10 kilometers southwest of Polei Kleng.
PFC James D. Mc Kelvey's decorations
Danny McKelvey
Danny McKelvey as a freshman at Central High, Florence, Alabama, from his High School yearbook
Burial:
Greenview Memorial Gardens
Forest Hills (Lauderdale County)
Lauderdale County
Alabama, USA
Sign outside Greenview Memorial Photo by Joan Viney |
VN War Memorial sign at Greenview Photo by Scrappy |
Grave marker for James Daniel "Danny" McKelvey
Photo by William Anthony Watkins
Monument for James D. McKelvey
Photo by William Anthony Watkins
Cemetery and grave photos from the Find A Grave website
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