Lorrence T. Friday

Date of Birth: 04/20/1942
Neighborhood: North Philadelphia
High School:
Street: N. Bancroft Street
Branch of Service: Army
Rank: CPL
Date of Casualty: 04/07/1968
Province of Casualty: Kontum
Philadelphia Memorial Panel: Panel 10
Panel Row: 9

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Friday enjoyed auto racing and Installed convertible tops for four years and worked as an auto body repairman and a painter's apprentice before entering the Army in August 1967. The corporal, assigned to Company II of the 3rd Battalion, 12th Intuit. try, 4th Infantry Division1~~, drowned while bathing in a Vietnamese river on April 7, 1968, two weeks before his 26th birthday. He was survived by his parent's three brothers and a sister.

Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial