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LOUIS COLSTON JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 28, 1947 – October 14, 1967
Service recordLouis Colston JR, of Bessemer, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on October 14, 1967, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27E, Line 107 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27E · Line 107
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 199 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- May 28, 1947
- Home of record
- Bessemer, Alabama (Jefferson County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 14, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
57 names on the Wall carry the date October 14, 1967; two of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In October 1967, 906 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 199th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 19 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 27E, Line 107
- ROBERT DAVID BUCHANANPrivate First Class · October 14, 1967
- ROBERT JAMES BURROUGHSSpecialist Four · October 14, 1967
- ROGER GARYLEE CAREYPrivate First Class · October 14, 1967
- DENNIS ALLEN CARLSONPrivate First Class · October 14, 1967
Same unit, same day
- ROGER DALE ATKINSONPrivate First Class · Panel 27E, Line 105
From Bessemer
- ROY MARVIN HITT JRSergeant · November 4, 1965
- CORDELL SPENCERSpecialist Four · November 8, 1965
- MACK ARTHUR WAREPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- ROBERT HENRY LAGRANDStaff Sergeant · January 29, 1966
- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS OAKESPrivate First Class · August 25, 1966
- ELIJAH DANIEL JRStaff Sergeant · October 22, 1966
- MATTHEW WAREStaff Sergeant · November 17, 1966
- THOMAS C EVANSStaff Sergeant · May 7, 1967
- WILLIAM HORACE JOHNSON JRLance Corporal · June 12, 1967
- NATHANIEL HARRISSpecialist Four · October 18, 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.