United States Army Captain Joshua S. Lawrence became the 1,803rd U.S. casualty in Afghanistan on 8 Oct 2011 when he died of wounds sustained in a rocket-propelled grenade attack in Kandahar.
He was based with the 1st Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Carson, Colorado.
CPT Lawrence was from Davidson County, Tennessee; he was 29.
As news of his death spread on the Internet, classmate Stacey Shirley Old posted on Facebook, “Please be in prayer for the Lawrence family. Joshua was recently killed in Afghanistan. His mother, Judy found out this morning. He was recently married. He went to Rosebank Elementary and graduated from Hume-Fogg, class of 2000.”
Lawrence majored in Political Science at Austin Peay University.
Lawrence leaves behind a wife, his mother, a brother and a sister. No one was home at the family home in East Nashville Monday night.
Some of Joshua’s fraternity brothers have created a memory page on Facebook. You can find a link to that page here:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/In-Memory-of-Joshua-S-Lawrence/257412630969922
Lawrence had received the following awards during his time in the Army: Bronze Star Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Joint Service Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and Korea Defense Service Medal.
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