Robert L. Harrison
Robert L. Harrison
| Born | 1943-01-16 |
| Died | 1968-05-21 South Vietnam |
Robert Louis Harrison (1943-1968) was a specialist four of the 1st Cavalry Division, a graduate of Billerica Memorial High School, who was killed in Vietnam in May 1968. He is one of the six men honored on the town's Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Vietnam Veterans Park on Treble Cove Road.
He was born on January 16, 1943, and graduated from Billerica Memorial High School with the class of 1961; his yearbook gives his nickname as "Bob." In Vietnam he served with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), whose battalions took part that spring in the relief of Khe Sanh and the operations in the A Shau Valley. He died on May 21, 1968, at the age of twenty-five; the national records give his home of record as Lowell. His name is on Panel 64E, Line 15 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.