Charles Melvin Goude
Corporal
HHC, 1ST BN, 2ND INFANTRY, 1ST INF DIV, USARV
Army of the United States
Fort Mill, South Carolina
May 10, 1935 to November 12, 1966
CHARLES M GOUDE is on the Wall at Panel 12E, Line 59

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04 Mar 2007

REMEMBERING CHARLES

Charles Melvin Goude was born May 10, 1936 in Camden, SC. The fifth of six children of Louie Melvin Goude and Olivia Russell Goude, he joined the Army at age sixteen. The last place he called home was Fort Mill, SC where he was laid to rest.

He left Fort Hood, Texas on May 14, 1966 with the 53rd Signal Battalion, arrived in Vietnam on June 4, and was stationed at Long Binh where he was a Sergeant in Company "A". He was transferred to the 1st Infantry Division on September 22, and was killed in action on November 12, 1966 while on an operation near Tay Ninh with his unit, HHC, 1st Bn, 2nd Inf, during Operation Attleboro.

His mother preceded him in death. He left behind his father and step-mother, two sisters, Cora and Jean, three brothers, Billy, Bobby and Gilbert, three nieces, six nephews, and me, the girl he was going to marry when he came home.

He was a wonderful guy with a great sense of humor and a big smile that I still see when I think of him. He loved his family, and he loved me. He will always be missed, but he left us many happy memories.

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal;
Love leaves a memory no one can steal."
~From a headstone in Ireland~

From his fiancee,
Carolyn Bradley Threatt
carolynbt@comporium.net


 

A Note from The Virtual Wall

On 12 November 1966 Headquarters Company, 1/2 Infantry, lost three men:
  • SSG Eduardo Guzman-Lugo, Barranquitas, PR;
  • SGT Kent P. Furphy, Amarillo, TX; and
  • CPL Charles M. Goude, Fort Mill, SC (Bronze Star "V").

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