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JESSIE SEYMORE BREWER
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
November 30, 1937 – October 2, 1967
Service recordJessie Seymore Brewer, of Boyle, Mississippi, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 2, 1967, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 38 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 38
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- November 30, 1937
- Home of record
- Boyle, Mississippi (Bolivar County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 2, 1967
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
25 names on the Wall carry the date October 2, 1967; two of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 38
- DAVID BRUCE TUCKERMajor · October 1, 1967
- RICHARD EDWARD DUCHARMELance Corporal · October 2, 1967
- RODGER DEAN ECKSTEINPrivate First Class · October 2, 1967
- IVAN CLAUS KINGStaff Sergeant · October 2, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES A NEISESSCaptain · Panel 27E, Line 40
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.