PFC Harold Curtis Nye, Lebanon, PA on www.VirtualWall.org The Virtual Wall® Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

Harold Curtis Nye

Private First Class
D CO, 11TH ENG BN, 3RD MARDIV, III MAF
United States Marine Corps
Lebanon, Pennsylvania
March 24, 1948 to June 24, 1967
HAROLD C NYE is on the Wall at Panel 22E, Line 58

Eternal Father, grant, we pray,
To all Marines, both night and day,
The courage, honor, strength, and skill
Their Land to serve, thy law fulfill;
Be thou the shield forevermore
From every peril to the Corps.
From the Navy Hymn
("Eternal Father")
REMEMBERED
by the men of the
11th Engineer Battalion

A Note from The Virtual Wall
The 11th Engineer Battalion Command Chronology for June 1967 contains the following entry:
"During the month of June [1967] this Battalion suffered three KIAs from enemy Rocket and Mortar attacks; 16 WIAs including three USN Corpsmen; one non-hostile death due to an accidental shooting on an ambush; and 11 non-hostile injuries."
The three hostile-fire deaths occurred on 20 June 1967, with three men from Bravo Company killed:

LCpl Leslie A. Chamberlain, Windgap, PA
Pfc Joseph R. Klug, Wheeling, WV
Pfc John W. Schweyher, Irvington, NJ
The accidental shooting occurred four days later and cost the life of one Marine from Delta Company:

Pfc Harold C. Nye, Lebanon, PA

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Eternal Father, grant, we pray, To all Marines, both night and day, The courage, honor, strength, and skill Their Land to serve, thy law fulfill; Be thou the shield forevermore From every peril to the Corps. From the Navy Hymn("Eternal Father")

A Note from The Virtual Wall

Eternal Father, grant, we pray,
To all Marines, both night and day,
The courage, honor, strength, and skill
Their Land to serve, thy law fulfill;
Be thou the shield forevermore
From every peril to the Corps.
From the Navy Hymn
("Eternal Father")