Paul J. Frink
Paul J. Frink
| Born | 1949-04-02 |
| Died | 1970-04-07 South Vietnam |
Paul Joseph Frink (1949-1970) was a sergeant of the 101st Airborne Division from Billerica who died in Vietnam in April 1970. He is one of the six men honored on the town's Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Vietnam Veterans Park on Treble Cove Road, and the town also named Frink Square, in the Center, in his memory.
He was born on April 2, 1949. In Vietnam he served with Company D, 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, in the mountains of northern South Vietnam. He died on April 7, 1970, at the age of twenty-one, and was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge and the Purple Heart. His name is on Panel W12, Line 103 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.
Frink Square is one of the town's veterans' squares, kept by the Park Division; in 1985 the division reported "the renovation of Frink Square in the center with shrubs, and bulbs."