Harvard, IL.
Date of Birth: 31 December, 1941
Date of Death: 30 November, 1965
Branch of Service: United States Army
Rank: Private First Class
Unit: Company D, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division
Place of Death: City of Pleiku, Gia Lai Province, Central Highland Region, Vietnam (Died from wounds received in the Battle of Ia Drang Valley)
Private First Class Lester E. Becker
7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Harvard, McHenry County, IL.
and
Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Panel 3E, Line 118
To visit the cemetery, click on his Headstone
