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ISOB Gallagher (Navy Cross)

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Details:

In the center of the cemetery.

Isolated Burial


A standard upright US Military white inscribed gravestone.

 

Corporal Patrick “Bob” Gallagher was an Irish-born US Marine who served in Company H, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, 3rd Marine Division in Vietnam.

 

He  was awarded the Navy Cross for valor for saving three Marines in July 1966 while in close combat with the enemy.  On March 30, 1967, Corporal Gallagher was killed while on patrol in Da Nang, Vietnam.

 

Corporal Gallagher was born February 1, 1944, the second of nine children and was from from Derrintogher, near Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, Ireland.  He moved to the US in 1962 to attend law school and enlisted in the US Marine Corps in 1965. 

 

USS Patrick Gallagher (DDG-127) is a planned United States Navy Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA guided missile destroyer is named in his honor.

 

The name Patrick Gallagher is inscribed on Panel 17E Line 71 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall.

 

Monument Text:

PATRICK 
GALLAGER

IRELAND

CPL. CO H 4 MAR
3 MAR DIV

VIETNAM

FEBRUARY 1, 1944
MARCH 30, 1967

NC - PH

Commemorates:

People:

Patrick 'Bob' Gallagher

Units:

3rd Marine Division

4th Marine Regiment

Wars:

Vietnam War

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