- SURNAME
Turpin
- FORENAME
Gordon James,Jr (Jimmy)
- UNIT
former 5 and 8 SF Groups
- RANK
First Lieutenant
- NUMBER
413665288
- DATE OF DEATH
20th August 1969
- AGE
27
- GRAVESITE
Memphis Memory Gardens,Memphis,Shelby County,Tennessee
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from Memphis,Tennessee
born 17.9.1941 Tennessee
son of Gordon James and Hazel G. (nee Brown) Turpin
married 14.6.1962
5 SF Group (Team Chance,Whitestar) (Specialist Fourth Class) December 1961
OCS Fort Benning 1967-68
8 SF Group (Company B) 1968
21 Infantry Regiment (Company B,3 Bn) 1969
awards Bronze Star,Army Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster
KIA Quang Tin Province,South Vietnam
Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 19W Line 83
DATE OF DEATH:
20-Aug-1969
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