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Grover was born in British India, the son of General Sir Malcolm Grover and Helen Grace Lawrence, granddaughter of Sir George St Patrick Lawrence. [2] [3] Educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Grover was, at the age of 17, commissioned as a second lieutenant into the King's Shropshire Light Infantry (KSLI) on 15 December 1914, four months after the outbreak ...
The 1st Battalion would serve with the 3rd Infantry Brigade, part of the 1st Infantry Division for the entire war. [2] Corporal Thomas Priday was killed by a land mine near Metz on 9 December 1939 when the 1st Battalion was based near the Maginot Line as part of the original British Expeditionary Force that was sent to France at the outbreak of ...
Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division, arrived in South Vietnam in December 1967. Though their first three months in Vietnam passed without any direct contact with People's Army of Vietnam or Viet Cong (VC) forces, by mid-March the company had suffered 28 casualties involving mines or booby ...
On 12 February, a VC ambush had killed nine Marines from Company B, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines. [2]: 345 A five-man Marine "hunter-killer" patrol led by Lance Corporal Randell D. Herrod, who had been in the country for seven months, alongside Private Thomas R. Boyd Jr., PFC Samuel G. Green, PFC Michael A. Schwarz and Lance Corporal Michael S. Krichten had been in Vietnam for only a month, was ...
The 1st BATTALION and TROOP C were defending a very critical sector of the battle front during a determined attack by the enemy. The defending units were overwhelmingly outnumbered. The 83rd Chinese Communist Army drove the full force of its savage assault at the positions held by the 1st BATTALION, GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT and attached unit.
The US Air Force 619th Tactical Control Squadron Detachment 7 provided air traffic control from August 1965 until May 1968. On 21 June 1969 after two days of shelling, the PAVN attacked the base and Tây Ninh City but were repulsed, suffering 194 dead for the loss of 10 Americans.
The 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division comprising: 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry [2]: 137 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry [2]: 137 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry [2]: 146 was based at Dầu Tiếng from July–November 1969 and January–February 1970. The 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division comprising: 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry [2]: 140
Luong's father, Luong Xuan Duong (d. 1997), [2] was a Major (Thiếu tá) in the Republic of Vietnam Marine Division.On 29 April 1975 he and his family were evacuated from Tan Son Nhat International Airport during Operation Frequent Wind, landing on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Hancock.