Delta Company 1/20
Delta Company, 1st Of The 20th, 11th Light Infantry Brigade
Americal Division
Ronald Walter Ferouge
Ronald Ferouge, standing in center of picture, with his friend LC Gillins (kneeling, center), with other of our Delta men.
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Picture submitted by LC Gillins.
Ronald Walter Ferouge was lost on May 14, 1969. During months of April, May & June in 1969 was for Delta Company a very hazardous time. On May 14th, Delta had choppered onto a hill and was almost immediately hit with three mortar rounds. Ferouge was badly wounded by the shrapnel and passed away from his wounds after leaving the battlefield by medical evacuation. He was from San Leandro, California.
The young soldier Ferouge is my second cousin, my father is Arthur M. Ferouge. Our roots lie in Indonesia as a colony of the Netherlands until 1948. After the independence of Indonesia almost all Dutch/Indonesians left the country for our homeland the Netherlands. Later on many of them emigrated to the USA, Australia and Canada. We have several Ferouge-members in California (a.o. in Seattle). The features of our nephew are familiar to us. Our French name origins from a grandfather who was an officer (Lanciers) in the French army (1800). After Waterloo (1815) he recieved the highest military reward (Legion d'honneur). He joined the Dutch Army and went to Indonesia. He became famous in the so-called Java-wars. His name is mentioned in the national militairy library as a hero. He died because of disentry.
We regret the loss of our nephew in Viet Nam, but we are proud of him although we don't know him. There are not so many young Ferouge's left today. In the Netherlands there are my brother Ralph, a tax-lawyer and myself Roy, an official of the Court of Audit.
Roy Ferouge
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