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Pvt Louis Anthony Leatherbury

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Pvt Louis Anthony Leatherbury Veteran

Birth
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
Death
24 Mar 1967 (aged 20)
Quảng Nam, Vietnam
Burial
Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA
Plot
Section 52, Site 755
Memorial ID
120193208 View Source

Pvt Leatherbury #2279051
MOS: 0311 Rifleman.

Upon arriving in Vietnam, Louis was assigned to India Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. Louis assigned to a security detail on a truck convoy when the convoy was ambushed by hostile forces. Louis died as a result of a hostile gunshot wound to the chest.
Tour of duty unknown.
Survived by his wife, Bettina Leatherbury, his mother; Anna Elizabeth Leatherbury, and his brothers and sisters, Charles H, Ludy M, Jay K, Zelda, Joanne, Sheila, Brenda and Susan, his grandmother; Hattie S Gordon all of Wilmington, Delaware, and his father, Ludy L Leatherbury of address unknown.

Pvt Leatherbury #2279051
MOS: 0311 Rifleman.

Upon arriving in Vietnam, Louis was assigned to India Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. Louis assigned to a security detail on a truck convoy when the convoy was ambushed by hostile forces. Louis died as a result of a hostile gunshot wound to the chest.
Tour of duty unknown.
Survived by his wife, Bettina Leatherbury, his mother; Anna Elizabeth Leatherbury, and his brothers and sisters, Charles H, Ludy M, Jay K, Zelda, Joanne, Sheila, Brenda and Susan, his grandmother; Hattie S Gordon all of Wilmington, Delaware, and his father, Ludy L Leatherbury of address unknown.


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