United State Marine Corps Cpl. Peter Fletcher, a Warren native who died in Vietnam in 1968, will be recognized at the annual Vietnam veterans’ service on Sunday, May 26.

Corporal Fletcher is buried in Warren’s South Burial Ground not far from the tomb of Commodore Joel Abbot. Peter Fletcher was a direct descendant of Commodore Abbot, a hero of the War of 1812, a one-time commander of the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet (then known as the East India Squadron) and second in command to Admiral Matthew Perry when an American fleet opened Japan to trade in 1853-54.

Peter Fletcher spent his early years at the Abbot family’s homestead, the impressive and very large Federal-styled house at 33 Miller St., known as the Miller-Abbot House. Besides the Abbots and Millers, he was a descendant of another of Warren’s first families, the Wheatons.

Corporal Fletcher, who served in an anti-aircraft missile battalion, died on Jan. 20, 1968, in Quang Tri, South Vietnam. He was 21.

Over the past four Memorial Day weekends, the Vietnam veterans’ service has recognized the four young men Warren who were killed in action in Vietnam. Corporal Fletcher, although a Warren native, entered the Marine Corps while a resident of Hudson, NH.

The service will be held at 9 a.m. at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at the light at Market Street and Kickemuit Road.