- SURNAME
Mulleavey
- FORENAME
Quinten Emile
- UNIT
503 Infantry Regiment (Airborne) (Company C,2 Bn)
- RANK
Specialist Fourth Class
- NUMBER
001384772
- DATE OF DEATH
3rd April 1968
- AGE
19
- GRAVESITE
Honolulu Memorial,Honolulu,Hawaii Courts of the Missing
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
from North Woodstock,New Hampshire
born 16.12.1948
son of Juliette Mulleavey
employed by Clark's Trading Post,Lincoln
entered service age 18
disappeared (non hostile) Binh Dinh Province,South Vietnam
some sources suggest he disappeared 29.1.1968
Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 47E Line 52
Riverside Cemetery,Lincoln,Grafton County,New Hampshire memorial stone
Army Spc. Mulleavey was apparently taken from his defensive position. A few days after the attack, soldiers in his unit returned to the position only to find his cigarettes and lighter in one area, and his helmet and knife about a mile or so from his other items. Mulleavey was never seen again. More than 30 years later, his nephew honored the prisoner of war who was pronounced killed in action in 1980.
Several years ago, a Vietcong soldier told U.S. military officials that he recognized Mulleavey in a picture, Juliette Mulleavey said. The man said
Mulleavey had been captured and taken to a nearby camp. There, Mulleavey heard American tanks and ran toward the sound. The Vietnamese soldiers shot him in the back, the man told officials. He led them to the spot where he believed Mulleavey had been buried. They found only a uniform button. The war had been over for more than 30 years, and farmers have plowed the fields where Mulleavey may have been. His remains could be spread over a greater distance, military officials told Juliette Mulleavey. Her blood sample is on file in case his remains are found. Mulleavey's grave is empty, but Juliette Mulleavey, 87, feels some finality to her son's death now that his name is on a headstone at Riverside Cemetery in Lincoln.
DATE OF DEATH:
03-Apr-1968
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