GREEN BERETS Rush, Claude Benjamin,Jr (Benny)

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Rush ​

• FORENAME

Claude Benjamin,Jr (Benny) ​

• UNIT

5 SF Group (Company D,Det A-415) ​

• RANK

Staff Sergeant ​

• NUMBER

18542601​

• DATE OF DEATH

29th December 1966 ​

• AGE

29 ​

• GRAVESITE

Forest Lawn Memorial Park,Beaumont,Jefferson County,Texas Prayer Garden​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from Beaumont,Texas​

born 1.6.1937 Danville,Virginia​

son of Claude Benjamin and Frances Estelle (nee Hale) Rush​

mother given as Effie G. Hatcher (1919-77) (Ancestry)​

husband of Virginia Ann (nee Fischer) Rush (1940-98)​

grew up Ruffin,North Carolina​

8 years service​

award Air Medal with oak leaf cluster​

KIA Tuyen Nhon,Kien Tuong Province,South Vietnam ​

Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 13E Line 100 ​

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