LAWRENCE WAITERS

Company A 1/22 Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 08/28/1968

 

 

Age: 23
Race: Negro
Sex: Male
Date of Birth Aug 27, 1945
From: HARTSVILLE, SC
Religion: METHODIST
Marital Status: Single

CPL - E4 - Army - Selective Service
4th Infantry Division
Grade at loss: E3
Rank: Corporal
Note: Posthumous Promotion as indicated
MOS: 11C10: Indirect Fire Infantryman
Length of service 0 years
His tour began on Apr 20, 1968
Casualty was on Aug 28, 1968
In DARLAC, SOUTH VIETNAM
Hostile, died of wounds, GROUND CASUALTY
GUN, SMALL ARMS FIRE
Body was recovered

Panel 46W - Line 54

 

Lawrence Waiters was drafted into the Army on November 6, 1967.

He died of wounds received in action in a mortar attack east of Duc Lap at grid reference ZU232875.

 

 

 

Corporal Lawrence Waiters' decorations

 

 

 

 

 

Lawrence is buried at Kelleybell Methodist Church Cemetery in Hartsville, SC

 

Grave marker for Lawrence Waiters

Photo courtesy of Martha Brown, Reference Librarian Hartsville Memorial Library

 

 

 

 

 

Grave marker for Lawrence Waiters

Photo courtesy of Martha Brown, Reference Librarian Hartsville Memorial Library

 

 

 

 

Grave monument for the Waiters family

Photo courtesy of Martha Brown, Reference Librarian Hartsville Memorial Library

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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