Dennis was the son of Bernard R. Schmidt and Belle A. Schmidt of North Plainfield New Jersey and the dear brother of his two sisters, Audrey and Shelia, he was born and lived in Halifax where he attended Tower Road School. He later moved to Kentville with his parents and lived there attending Kentville High School four years before moving to the United States.
While in New Jersey Dennis enlisted in the US Marine Corps on August 12 1964 in New York and upon completion of Boot Camp, at Parris Island South Carolina, then Infantry Training at Camp Geiger, he was assigned to his first unit for duty as a Rifleman with Company H, 2d Battalion, 6th Marines, 2d Marine Division FMF at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina on December 11, 1964.
After leave on October 8, 1965 he returned to his unit where he received orders for duty in Vietnam and upon arrival in South East Asia April 19, 1966, he was assigned to and served with Company E, 2d Battalion, 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division (Rein) FMF in northern Quang Tri Province.
With the termination of Operation HASTINGS, Operation PRAIRIE began in northern Quang Tri Province. On August 8, a Recon Team on patrol northeast of the Rock pile made contact with an enemy force and a reaction squad was sent to reinforce the team, with the enemy retreating into the heavy undergrowth both Marine units then moved to a designated location where a helicopter extraction could be made. Arriving to their destination the ground units encountered a reinforced NVA Company; a fierce fire fight broke out the superior foe, supporting arms from fixed wing aircraft to artillery were called and began pounding the enemy. By nightfall most of the troops were picked up from the hot LZ (Landing Zone) with sixteen men remaining on the ground until morning. Casualties sustained during the battle were four Marines killed in the action and eighteen men being wounded. One of the casualties was CPL Schmidt who was killed by hostile rifle fire.
Cpl Schmidt was returned to Halifax for burial, and he was interred on a Saturday after in a family plot at the United Baptist Church Cemetery, Head of St Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia.
Cpl Dennis Schmidt was later reinterred at the Elm Grove Cemetery in Kentville, Nova Scotia.
While in New Jersey Dennis enlisted in the US Marine Corps on August 12 1964 in New York and upon completion of Boot Camp, at Parris Island South Carolina, then Infantry Training at Camp Geiger, he was assigned to his first unit for duty as a Rifleman with Company H, 2d Battalion, 6th Marines, 2d Marine Division FMF at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina on December 11, 1964.
After leave on October 8, 1965 he returned to his unit where he received orders for duty in Vietnam and upon arrival in South East Asia April 19, 1966, he was assigned to and served with Company E, 2d Battalion, 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division (Rein) FMF in northern Quang Tri Province.
With the termination of Operation HASTINGS, Operation PRAIRIE began in northern Quang Tri Province. On August 8, a Recon Team on patrol northeast of the Rock pile made contact with an enemy force and a reaction squad was sent to reinforce the team, with the enemy retreating into the heavy undergrowth both Marine units then moved to a designated location where a helicopter extraction could be made. Arriving to their destination the ground units encountered a reinforced NVA Company; a fierce fire fight broke out the superior foe, supporting arms from fixed wing aircraft to artillery were called and began pounding the enemy. By nightfall most of the troops were picked up from the hot LZ (Landing Zone) with sixteen men remaining on the ground until morning. Casualties sustained during the battle were four Marines killed in the action and eighteen men being wounded. One of the casualties was CPL Schmidt who was killed by hostile rifle fire.
Cpl Schmidt was returned to Halifax for burial, and he was interred on a Saturday after in a family plot at the United Baptist Church Cemetery, Head of St Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia.
Cpl Dennis Schmidt was later reinterred at the Elm Grove Cemetery in Kentville, Nova Scotia.
Dennis was the son of Bernard R. Schmidt and Belle A. Schmidt of North Plainfield New Jersey and the dear brother of his two sisters, Audrey and Shelia, he was born and lived in Halifax where he attended Tower Road School. He later moved to Kentville with his parents and lived there attending Kentville High School four years before moving to the United States.
While in New Jersey Dennis enlisted in the US Marine Corps on August 12 1964 in New York and upon completion of Boot Camp, at Parris Island South Carolina, then Infantry Training at Camp Geiger, he was assigned to his first unit for duty as a Rifleman with Company H, 2d Battalion, 6th Marines, 2d Marine Division FMF at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina on December 11, 1964.
After leave on October 8, 1965 he returned to his unit where he received orders for duty in Vietnam and upon arrival in South East Asia April 19, 1966, he was assigned to and served with Company E, 2d Battalion, 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division (Rein) FMF in northern Quang Tri Province.
With the termination of Operation HASTINGS, Operation PRAIRIE began in northern Quang Tri Province. On August 8, a Recon Team on patrol northeast of the Rock pile made contact with an enemy force and a reaction squad was sent to reinforce the team, with the enemy retreating into the heavy undergrowth both Marine units then moved to a designated location where a helicopter extraction could be made. Arriving to their destination the ground units encountered a reinforced NVA Company; a fierce fire fight broke out the superior foe, supporting arms from fixed wing aircraft to artillery were called and began pounding the enemy. By nightfall most of the troops were picked up from the hot LZ (Landing Zone) with sixteen men remaining on the ground until morning. Casualties sustained during the battle were four Marines killed in the action and eighteen men being wounded. One of the casualties was CPL Schmidt who was killed by hostile rifle fire.
Cpl Schmidt was returned to Halifax for burial, and he was interred on a Saturday after in a family plot at the United Baptist Church Cemetery, Head of St Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia.
Cpl Dennis Schmidt was later reinterred at the Elm Grove Cemetery in Kentville, Nova Scotia.
While in New Jersey Dennis enlisted in the US Marine Corps on August 12 1964 in New York and upon completion of Boot Camp, at Parris Island South Carolina, then Infantry Training at Camp Geiger, he was assigned to his first unit for duty as a Rifleman with Company H, 2d Battalion, 6th Marines, 2d Marine Division FMF at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina on December 11, 1964.
After leave on October 8, 1965 he returned to his unit where he received orders for duty in Vietnam and upon arrival in South East Asia April 19, 1966, he was assigned to and served with Company E, 2d Battalion, 4th Marines, 3d Marine Division (Rein) FMF in northern Quang Tri Province.
With the termination of Operation HASTINGS, Operation PRAIRIE began in northern Quang Tri Province. On August 8, a Recon Team on patrol northeast of the Rock pile made contact with an enemy force and a reaction squad was sent to reinforce the team, with the enemy retreating into the heavy undergrowth both Marine units then moved to a designated location where a helicopter extraction could be made. Arriving to their destination the ground units encountered a reinforced NVA Company; a fierce fire fight broke out the superior foe, supporting arms from fixed wing aircraft to artillery were called and began pounding the enemy. By nightfall most of the troops were picked up from the hot LZ (Landing Zone) with sixteen men remaining on the ground until morning. Casualties sustained during the battle were four Marines killed in the action and eighteen men being wounded. One of the casualties was CPL Schmidt who was killed by hostile rifle fire.
Cpl Schmidt was returned to Halifax for burial, and he was interred on a Saturday after in a family plot at the United Baptist Church Cemetery, Head of St Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia.
Cpl Dennis Schmidt was later reinterred at the Elm Grove Cemetery in Kentville, Nova Scotia.
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