US PARAS 2 Pershing, Richard Warren

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Pershing​

• FORENAME

Richard Warren​

• UNIT

502 Infantry Regiment (Airmobile) (Company A,1 Bn)​

• RANK

Second Lieutenant​

• NUMBER

0-5346479​

• DATE OF DEATH

17th February 1968​

• AGE

25​

• GRAVESITE

Arlington National Cemetery,Virginia Section 34 Site S-19​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from New York,New York​

born 25.10.1942 Manhattan,New York,New York​

son of Francis Warren and Muriel Bache (nee Richards) Pershing,771 Park Avenue,New York​

father (1909-80) served as Private US Army in WW2​

grandson of General of the Armies John Joseph Pershing (Black Jack)​

great grandson of Senator Francis Emroy Warren (Medal of Honor in Civil War as Cpl 49th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry)​

brother of Captain John Warren Pershing (10 SF Group 1965-67 and 11 SF Group,Army Reserves 1967-68) (later Colonel)​

single​

graduated Phillips Exeter Academy​

graduated Yale University (1962-66)​

entered service 1967​

graduated OCS Class 47/67,Fort Benning 1967​

A/1/502 IR 1967-68​

KIA Thua Thien Province,South Vietnam​

Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 39E Line 76​

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