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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 9279" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Turpin </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Gordon James,Jr (Jimmy) </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>former 5 and 8 SF Groups</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>First Lieutenant </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px">413665288</p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>20th August 1969 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>27 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Memphis Memory Gardens,Memphis,Shelby County,Tennessee</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>from Memphis,Tennessee</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 17.9.1941 Tennessee</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Gordon James and Hazel G. (nee Brown) Turpin</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married 14.6.1962</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>5 SF Group (Team Chance,Whitestar) (Specialist Fourth Class) December 1961</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>OCS Fort Benning 1967-68</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>8 SF Group (Company B) 1968</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>21 Infantry Regiment (Company B,3 Bn) 1969</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awards Bronze Star,Army Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>KIA Quang Tin Province,South Vietnam</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><em>Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 19W Line 83 </em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/g-turpin.33521/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/33/33521-d4442666541c1e5353dedf74be549393.jpg?1591437063" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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