Sgt 1st Class Robert Earl Dunham
Born: August 17, 1970
Died: May 24, 2007 in Baghdad, Iraq
Sgt 1st Class Robert E. Dunham of Baltimore, Maryland graduated in 1988 from Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School, where he studied industrial electronics. He was an honors student who loved playing basketball in community leagues. He grew up in the Park Heights community in west Baltimore. He was the married father of five boys, and had been serving in Iraq since January. He joined the Army the same year he graduated and trained at Fort Dix, N.J., to work with communications equipment. He was stationed in Germany, Kansas and Arkansas before his family settled in Georgia. He served in Iraq during Operation Desert Storm, in Bosnia and in Somalia and had received special-forces training before his latest tour in Iraq. He also served as a minister of music for churches wherever he was stationed, including in Georgia. He was a skilled piano and organ player and directed his church choir. His passion really was for ministry. He He died at age 36 Baghdad of wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. Also killed was Staff Sgt. Russell K. Shoemaker.
Army
1st Brigade Transition Team
4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team
1st Infantry Division
Fort Riley, Kansas
Burial is at Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery in North Little Rock, Arkansas – Sec L Site 725
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