Fred Richard Glover (1946 - 1968)

Biography

Fred was born in 1946. He was the son of Mr. & Mrs. Mack M. Glover of Mulberry, Florida.^[1]

The 1950 census of Hillsborough, Florida reported Freddie Glover age 3 in the household of McKinley Glover 52 and Lillie Bell Glover 47, with Rosa Lee 23, Rachel 14, McKinley Jr 16, David 12, Isaih 10 and Alice 6. McKinley, Lillie and Rosa were farm hands working 60 hours per week.^[2]

He was killed in action in Vietnam in 1968.^[3]

Service Information

Fred Richard Glover ON THE WALL: Panel 47E Line 50 This page Copyright© 1997-2018 www.VirtualWall.org Ltd. PERSONAL DATA: Home of Record: Bartow, FL Date of birth: 07/09/1946 MILITARY DATA: Service Branch: Army of the United States Grade at loss: E4 Rank: Specialist Four Promotion Note: None ID No: 53699842 MOS: 13E40: Cannon Fire Direction Specialist Length Service: 01 Unit: C BTRY, 2ND BN, 17TH ARTILLERY, 41ST ARTY GROUP, I FIELD FORCE, USARV CASUALTY DATA: Start Tour: 01/04/1968 Incident Date: 04/03/1968 Casualty Date: 04/03/1968 Status Date: Not Applicable Status Change: Not Applicable Age at Loss: 21 Location: Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam Remains: Body recovered Repatriated: Not Applicable Identified: Not Applicable Casualty Type: Hostile, died outright Casualty Reason: Ground casualty Casualty Detail: Multiple fragmentation wounds URL: https:/www.VirtualWall.org/dg/GloverFR01a.htm Data accessed: 2/21/2019 ^[4]

Fred Richard Glover was buried in Palm Cemetery, Bartow, Polk, Florida.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "2 Area Men Die in Vietnam," The Orlando Evening Star, 9 Apr 1968, p. 1, col. 2. Web (newspapers.com; accessed 17 May 2023) Newspapers Clip: 124843391.
2. ↑ 1950 Census: "1950 United States Federal Census"
   United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Hillsborough, Florida; Roll: 5367; Sheet Number: 23; Enumeration District: 29-128
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 62308 #82288541 (accessed 3 July 2023); "United States 1950 Census", database, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:6X23-KMDL : Fri Mar 24 23:56:58 UTC 2023), Entry for McKinley Glover and Lillie Bell Glover, April 11, 1950.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7863703/fred-richard-glover: accessed 16 May 2023), memorial page for Fred Richard Glover (9 Jul 1946–3 Apr 1968), Find a Grave Memorial ID 7863703, citing Palm Cemetery, Bartow, Polk County, Florida, USA; Maintained by: Find a Grave.
4. ↑ THE VIRTUAL WALL ® www.VirtualWall.org

See also:

• "SP4 Fred Richard Glover." The Virtual Wall. Www.VirtualWall.org, Ltd, 29 2018. Web. 11 Feb 2019. <https://www.virtualwall.org/ds/SummersillEP01a.htm>.
• "United States Military Personnel who Died During the Vietnam War, 1956-2003," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXXY-F61 : 12 December 2014), Fred Richard Glover, 03 Apr 1968; citing Tien Phuoc Dist HQ, , South Vietnam, panel 47E, line 050, NARA NAID 571687, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.