Shepherd, Gordon
Marines Lance corporal

Gordon Shepherd, age 19, from Auglaize County Cridersville, Ohio .

Parents: George and Lucy Moore Shepherd

Service era: Vietnam
Military history: 3rd Engineer’s Battalion, 3rd Division

Date of death: Thursday, March 17, 1966
Death details: Killed in South Vietnam when he stepped on a mine or was hit by mortar fire.
Cemetery: McDonald Fairview

Source: National Archives, Lima News (1966)