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CHESTER RAYMOND PAVEY
Gunnery Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps
August 10, 1930 – March 25, 1967
Service recordChester Raymond Pavey, of Anderson, Indiana, served as a Gunnery Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on March 25, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 47 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 47
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Gunnery Sergeant (GYSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Unit Leader (0369)
- Born
- August 10, 1930
- Home of record
- Anderson, Indiana (Madison County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 25, 1967
- Age
- 36
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
36 names on the Wall carry the date March 25, 1967; 13 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 17E, Line 47
- DUDLEY RANDOLPH PATTYSpecialist Four · March 25, 1967
- DONALD RAY SANDERSPrivate First Class · March 25, 1967
- MICHAEL WILLIAM TWIGGSpecialist Four · March 25, 1967
- WARREN DEMAREST VOUGHT JRCorporal · March 25, 1967
From Anderson
- ROY ELDON FREEMAN JRPrivate First Class · May 9, 1966
- TERRY PETE REDICLance Corporal · June 16, 1966
- DAVID GEORGE HUTCHINGSSpecialist Four · June 20, 1966
- TOMMIE JOE CAMPBELLPrivate First Class · July 3, 1966
- CARL T FUNKHOUSERSpecialist Four · August 16, 1966
- JERRY ROBERT BLOOMERSpecialist Four · September 12, 1966
- LAWRENCE EUGENE FOWLERPrivate First Class · November 6, 1966
- DWIGHT LEROY BASEYSpecialist Four · November 19, 1966
- DANIEL LOUIS ALBERTSSpecialist Four · March 31, 1967
- CARMAN KEETON HICKSLance Corporal · May 9, 1967
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.