Chester Wayne Wilson, was the son of Denver Wilson and Nola Royston. He attended Whitesburg High School in Whitesburg, TN.
Military Data
Unit A Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, USARV
Casualty Data
Start Tour 26 December 1967
Incident Date 10 February 1968
Casualty Date 10 February 1968
Age at Loss 18
Location Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam
Remains Body recovered
Casualty Type Hostile, died outright
Casualty Reason Ground casualty
Casualty Detail Multiple fragmentation wounds
Vietnam Wall Panel 38E Line 074
The Knoxville News-Sentinel, 28 February 1968
Chester Wayne Wilson of Morristown has been killed in action in Vietnam, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Denver Wilson, have been notified. Young Wilson, 18, went into service last July and had been in Vietnam about a month when the parents received word he was missing in action. Later they were told that he had been killed. The parents live on Silver City Rd. The body will be returned to Stubblefield’s, but it is not known when. Young Wilson was the fifth Hamblen Countian to die in the Vietnam war.
- Rank: Private First Class
- Date of birth: 14 September 1949
- Date of death: 10 February 1968
- County: Hamblen
- Hometown: Whitesburg
- Service Branch: Army
- Division/Assignment: 25th Infantry Division
- Conflict: Vietnam
- Awards: Combat Infantrymans Badge, Purple Heart, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal
- Burial/Memorial Location: Bent Creek Cemetery, Whitesburg, Hamblen County, TN
- Location In Memorial: Pillar XXII, Bottom Panel
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