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A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter.
A 57th Medical Detachment crew loads a wounded soldier aboard a UH-1D “Dustoff” helicopter. Photo: SP4 James B. Egan, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Edmond Ceasar Sutton.

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EDMOND CEASAR SUTTON

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

November 27, 1943 – June 22, 1967

Service record

Edmond Ceasar Sutton, of Baltimore, Maryland, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on June 22, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 22E, Line 51 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 22E · Line 51

Position of Panel 22E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Medical Equipment Repairer (91A)
Unit (as recorded)
196 LIGHT INF BDE
Born
November 27, 1943
Home of record
Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore (City) County)

Casualty

Date of death
June 22, 1967
Age
23
Province
Kontum
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Explosive Device

Context · from the records

What was happening

87 names on the Wall carry the date June 22, 1967; 78 of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In June 1967, 948 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 6 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 22E, Line 51

From Baltimore

All 419 names from Baltimore →

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.