JAMES D YEAKLEY

Company C 1/22 Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA 11/17/1967

Age: 23
Race: Caucasian
Sex: Male
Date of Birth Oct 17, 1944
From: LOS ANGELES, CA
Religion: BAPTIST
Marital Status: Married

SGT - E5 - Army - Selective Service
4th Infantry Division
MOS: 11B40: Infantryman
Length of service 1 years
His tour began on Apr 1, 1967
Casualty was on Nov 17, 1967
In DARLAC, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
GUN, SMALL ARMS FIRE
Body was recovered

Panel 30E - Line 12

James Yeakley was killed in action by a gunshot wound while on a combat operation
when his unit engaged a hostile force in a firefight.

SGT James D. Yeakley's decorations

James was a graduate of La Mirada High School 1962, La Mirada, Cal.

Birth: Oct. 17, 1944
Los Angeles County
California, USA
Death: Nov. 17, 1967, Vietnam

Sgt James David Yeakley died in Vietnam on November 17, 1967 while serving with Co C 1-22 Battalion 4th Infantry Division.
He is buried at Rose Hills Memorial Cemetery, Whittier California. He died at Darlac, Republic of Vietnam.

His name was placed on the spacecraft "Stardust" alsong with a distant cousin, Robin Ray Yeakley. It was launched on 7 Feb 1999.
The spacecraft visited the Comet 'Wild #2' in 2004. Robin Ray Yeakley also died in South Vietnam.

This family has served in every single war that the United States has ever fought in starting with the Indian Wars of 1754
and the Revolutionary War with our common ancestor, George Yeakley. Even the ones who had remained Quaker all these years.

George Yeakley Indian Wars of 1754-Revolutionary War
Henry Yeakley War of 1812
James Madison Yeakley Civil War-Confederate of Texas

There are a few less than 200 Yeakley serving in the Military in James David's family.

The above was written by Linda Morris a cousin of James Yeakey

Burial:
Rose Hills Memorial Park
Whittier
Los Angeles County
California, USA
Plot: Burial Section 6, Lot 3024, Grave 3

Grave marker for James D. Yeakley

Photo by Louis Mata from the Find A Grave website

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