Irish Veterans Memorial Project

Irish who lost their lives with U.S. Forces, Vietnam
 
   
 
Sgt Patrick Christopher ‘Christy’ Nevin, Army
 
Date & Place of Birth:

25 April 1937, Claremorris, Co Mayo, Ireland

 
Home of Record:

East Chicago, Indiana, United States of America

 

Date & Place of Death:

23 February 1966, SVN
 
Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 5 East, Line 67

   

 
L/Cpl Paul Ivan Maher, Marine Corps
 
Date & Place of Birth:

06 July 1945, Dublin, Ireland

 

Home of Record:

Hauppauge, New York

 

Date & Place of Death:

05 March 1966, Quang Nam

 

Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 5 East, Line 120

   

 
SP4 Timothy Daly, Army
 
Date & Place of Birth:

21 July 1945, Limerick,  Ireland

 

Home of Record:

Edgewater, New Jersey

 

Date & Place of Death:

03 February 1967, Svn

 

Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 14 East, Line 111

   

 
L/Cpl Bernard Anthony Freyne, Marine Corps
 
Date & Place of Birth:

13 May1945, Ballaghadereen, Co Roscommon, Ireland

 

Home of Record:

Woodside, New York

 

Date & Place of Death:

10 March 1967, Da Nang

 

Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 16 East, Line 52

   

 
SP4 Michael Francis Smith, Army
 
Date & Place of Birth:

25 November 1945, Ballyconnell, Co Cavan, Ireland

 

Home of Record:

New York, New York

 

Date & Place of Death:

18 March 1967, Tay Ninh

 

Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 16 East, Line 107

   

 
SP4 John Coyle, Army
 
Date & Place of Birth:

03 January1946, Kilcogy (*), Co Cavan, Ireland

 

Home of Record:

Hackensack, New Jersey

 

Date & Place of Death:

29 March 1967, SVN

(*Born Birmingham, England of Irish-born parents, prior to emigration to US at c.4y.o.)
 

Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 17 East, Line 67

   

 
Cpl Patrick ‘Bob’ Gallagher, Marine Corps
 
Date & Place of Birth:

01 February 1944, Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo, Ireland

 

Home of Record:

Lynbrook, New York

 

Date & Place of Death:

30 March 1967, Quang Nam

 

Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 17 East, Line 71

   

 
Sgt/FC Edward Michael Howell, Army,
 
Date & Place of Birth:

21 June 1937, Dublin, Ireland

 

Home of Record:

Cleveland, Ohio

 

Date & Place of Death:

17 April 1967, Long An

 

Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 18 East, Line 41

   

 
PFC Maurice Joseph O’Callaghan, Marine Corps
 
Date & Place of Birth:

27 December 1946, Dublin, Ireland

 

Home of Record:

Iselin, New Jersey

 

Date & Place of Death:

21 April 1967, Quang Nam

 

Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 18 East, Line 62

   

 
Cpl Terence Patrick FitzGerald, Army
 
Date & Place of Birth:

London, England (*)

 

Home of Record:

California

 

Date & Place of Death:

26 May 1967,

(*Father born Kerry, Mother born Galway)
 

Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 20 East, Line 114

   

 
PFC John Patrick Collopy, Army
 
Date & Place of Birth:

06 July 1946, Limerick, Ireland

 

Home of Record:

Dorchester, Massachusetts

 

Date & Place of Death:

15 July 1967, Tay Ninh

 

Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 23 East, Line 74

   

 
SP4 Edward Anthony Scully, Army
 
Date & Place of Birth:

25 June 1945, Cork, Ireland

 

Home of Record:

West Point, New York

 

Date & Place of Death:

13 November 1967, Kontum

 

Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 29 East, Line 92

   

 
Capt Edmond J. Landers, Army
 
Date & Place of Birth:

07 July 1937, Oola, Co Limerick, Ireland

 

Home of Record:

Vacaville, California

 

Date & Place of Death:

15 May 1968, Gia Dinh

 

Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 60 East, Line 24

   

 
1/Lt Anthony Paul O’Reilly, Army
 
Date & Place of Birth:

01 June 1938, Galway, Ireland

 

Home of Record:

Kettering, Ohio

 

Date & Place of Death:

03 June 1968, Kien Tuong

 

Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 60 West, Line 3

   

 
Second Lieutenant Pamela Dorothy Donovan, Army Nurse Corps
 
Date & Place of Birth:

25 March 1942, Wirral, Merseyside, UK (*)

 

Home of Record:

Brighton, Massachusetts

 

Date & Place of Death:

08 July 1968, Gia Dinh

(*Irish-born parents and siblings, Irish citizen and Irish educated until emigration to US)
 

Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 53 West, Line 43

   

 
Cpl Philip Sean Bancroft, Marine Corps
 
Date & Place of Birth:

11 June 1949, Belfast, Northern Ireland

 

Home of Record:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

 

Date & Place of Death:

30 September 1968, Quang Nam

 

Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 42 West, Line 45

   

 
SP4 Brian Francis McCarthy, Army
 
Date & Place of Birth:

5 October 1945, New York (*)

 

Home of Record:

New York City, New York

 

Date & Place of Death:

15 March 1969, Binh Long

(*Born in U.S. to Irish Father from Cork)
 

Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 29 West, Line 47

   

 
Cpl Sean T. Doran, Army
 
Date & Place of Birth:

09 October 1948, Dublin, Ireland

 

Home of Record:

Lennox, California

 

Date & Place of Death:

28 March 1969, Tay Ninh

 

Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 28 West, Line 68

   

 
L/Cpl Peter Mary Nee, Marine Corps
 
Date & Place of Birth:

15 August 1947, Connemara, Co Galway, Ireland

 

Home of Record:

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

Date & Place of Death:

31 March 1969, Quang Nam

 

Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 28 West, Line 99

   

 
1/Lt John Cecil Driver, Army
 
Date & Place of Birth:

16 May 1936, Ringsend, Dublin, Ireland

 

Home of Record:

Dublin, Ireland

 

Date & Place of Death:

17 April 1969, Thua Tien

 

Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 27 West, Line 99

   

 
   

 
RD3 Martin S Doherty,Navy
 
Date & Place of Birth:

8 April 1949, New York

 

Home of Record:

New York

 

Date & Place of Death:

4 Dec 1969, Vietnam

 

Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 15 West Line 23

   

 (*Mother born Galway, buried in Kilkerrin Cemetery, Galway alongside her)
   
     
     
Sgt Arthur Fisher, US Marine Corps
 
Date & Place of Birth:

31 July 1942, Portrush, Co Antrim, Ireland

 

Home of Record:

North Tonawanda, New York

 

Date & Place of Death:

20 Nov 1970, Quang Nam

 

Vietnam Memorial:

Panel 6 West, Line 73

   

 (Buried in St Pancras, Islington and Finchley Cemetery, London)
   
     
     
     
     

Irishmen Killed Serving With Australians

   

 
Rifleman George Nagle, 9th Royal Australian Regiment
 
Date & Place of Birth:

1946, Clonmel, Co Tipperary, Ireland

 

Home of Record:

Australia

 

Date & Place of Death:

06 January 1969, Phuoc Tuy Province

   

 
Driver/Signalman David G. Doyle, 3 Cavalry Regiment
 
Date & Place of Birth:

1950, Dublin, Ireland

 

Home of Record:

New South Wales, Australia

 

Date & Place of Death:

31 July 1970

   

 
Sgt Robert Fleming, 1st RAR and 1st Australian Reinforcement Regiment
 
Date & Place of Birth:

1946, Northern Ireland

 

Home of Record:

Australia

 

Date & Place of Death:

09 November1970, South Vietnam

   

 
Sgt Thomas Birnie, 2nd Royal Australian Regiment
 

Date & Place of Birth:

1940, Belfast, Northern Ireland

 

Home of Record:

Australia

 

Date & Place of Death:

25 March 1971

   

 

Irishman in Canadian uniform

 
Sgt. James Sylvester Byrne, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
 

Date & Place of Birth:

17 April 1929, Dublin

 

Current Status:

Missing, 18 Oct 1965

 

 

Plane was lost over Laos

   

 

Irishman Working For US Aid

 
Michael Murphy, Office of Public Safety, US AID, Advisor to South Vietnamese Police Field Forces,
 

Date & Place of Birth:

9 Feb 1928, Cork City

 

Home of Record:

Alaska (on leave from Alaska State Troopers)

 

Date & Place of Death:

23 May 1968, SVN

 

Irishman Working For Air America

 

Patrick Factna McCarthy,

(Served with the Marines in Vietnam before joining Air America. Buried in St Patrick's Cemetery, Dunmanway, West Cork. Commemorated on Air America Memorial, University of Texas, Dallas, USA.)

 

Date & Place of Birth:

Dunmanway, Co Cork

 

Home of Record:

New York

 

Date & Place of Death:

7 Dec 1968, Laos

 

Valid as at July 2008