Rank: Specialist 4
Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Troop, 2nd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
MOS: 91A – Medical Equipment Repairer
Awards: Purple Heart Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Badges: Combat Medical Badge
Unit awards: Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm device
Note: Medic attached to E Troop, 2/11 ACR
Enlisted by: Selected Service
Date of birth: 27-Nov-1943
Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland
Marital status: Never Married
Campaign: Vietnam Conflict
Entered service: 23-Aug-1966
Start of tour: 15-Feb-1967
Incident date: 22-Jun-1967, BT288134
Date of casualty: 22-Jun-1967
Age at death: 23
Cause of death: Hostile, died of wounds. Explosive Device. Other explosive device.
221100H 22 Jun 1967 vicinity BT288134 E Troop 2/11 APC hit mine containing approximately 40 lbs of explosives. Edmond Ceasar Sutton was passenger in a military vehicle on a combat operation when vehicle hit hostile mine.
Two Blackhorse troopers died as a result of this incident:
SFC James Harvey Hinson
SP4 Edmond Ceasar Sutton
Location of fatality: Kontum, South Vietnam
Place of interment: Baltimore National Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
View this soldier‘s Find a Grave page (opens in a new window)