Larry Welsh, MIA - Vietnam POW/MIA Monuments on Waymarking.com

Larry Welsh was born on June 16, 1947. He grew up in Kansas City, Kansas with his 3 siblings. He was a Boy Scout and earned the God and Country award, and is a Life Scout.

Before going into the Army, he worked as a swtichman for Santa Fe Railroad. He entered the service in January, 1968, and was sent to Vietnam in December, 1968 as a platoon sergeant.

Larry's platoon was engaged in a firefight with Viet Cong on January 7, 1969, northwest of Tay Ninh City, Tay Ninh Province, about 8 miles from the border of South Vietnam and Cambodia. Larry, slightly injured by fragmentation wounds, removed his shirt and told another wounded soldier that he was going for help. That soldier then observed Welsh walk down a path toward an area where artillery shells were falling.

Returning to the battle scene the next day, searchers found one man dead and a wounded man hiding in a hollow log. The wounded man told the searchers what he knew about Larry. The search team found Welsh's eyeglasses, wallet, shirt and the watch with the silver chain wristband that he wore, but Larry was not seen again. He was the only man unaccounted for in Vietnam on that day.

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