ROBERT E. SCHARON III

Battery B 4/42 Artillery

4th Infantry Division

KIA 11/09/1967

 

 

Age: 20
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Male
Date of Birth Apr 12, 1947
From: BALTIMORE, MD
Religion: METHODIST
Marital Status: Single

CPL - E4 - Army - Regular
4th Infantry Division
Grade at loss: E3
Rank: Corporal
Note: Posthumous Promotion as indicated
MOS: 36K20: Tactical Wire Operations Specialist
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Sep 13, 1967
Casualty was on Nov 9, 1967
In DARLAC, SOUTH VIETNAM
Hostile, died while missing, GROUND CASUALTY
MULTIPLE FRAGMENTATION WOUNDS
Body was recovered

Panel 29E - Line 61

 

Robert Scharon was killed in action while on perimeter defense
when his position came under hostile mortar attack.

 

 

 

CPL Robert E. Scharon's decorations

 

 

 

 

Burial:
Lorraine Park Cemetery
Woodlawn (Baltimore County)
Baltimore County
Maryland, USA

 

 

Grave marker for Robert E. Scharon

Photo by Dennis Healey from the Find A Grave website

 

 

Cemetery monument for Robert E. Scharon

Photo by Dennis Healey from the Find A Grave website

 

 

 

 

 

Top photo from the Together We Served website

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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