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David A Wilkey Jr
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Name: Army Spc. David A. Wilkey Jr.
Age: 22
From: Elkhart, Ind.
Assigned to 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.
Incident: Army Spc. David A. Wilkey Jr. died June 18 in Baghdad of wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his unit in Baghdad.
Died: June 18, 2007
Upper Peninsula native killed in Iraq
The Associated Press
Age: 22
From: Elkhart, Ind.
Assigned to 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.
Incident: Army Spc. David A. Wilkey Jr. died June 18 in Baghdad of wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his unit in Baghdad.
Died: June 18, 2007
Upper Peninsula native killed in Iraq
The Associated Press
WILSON, Mich. — A soldier born in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, the Defense Department and family members said June 19.
Spc. David Anthony Wilkey Jr., 22, died June 18 from wounds suffered the previous day when a roadside bomb blew up near his unit in Baghdad, the Pentagon said. Wilkey was riding in a Humvee convoy, said his father, David Wilkey Sr. of Elkhart, Ind.
Wilkey Jr. was born in Norway, Mich., and grew up in Wilson, his father said. As a teenager, he moved to Elkhart, where he graduated from Jimtown High School.
He worked with his father at Plastic Components Inc. for several years before joining the Army and being...
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1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kan.;
Incident
Army Spc. David A. Wilkey Jr. died June 18 in Baghdad of wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his unit in Baghdad.
Prayers & Messages
David A Wilkey Jr
2025-01-14
A good young man. My son's best friend.
David A Wilkey Jr
2011-06-20
Our thoughts are with you and your family...May God take you in and bless you with all you have done...Eternity is your new beginning...Life on Earth was just the start of you!!! God Bless, and Thank you for serving for all of us!!!
David A Wilkey Jr
2011-06-18
God bless you David and my prayers go out to tthe family of Mr. Wilkey Jr. Thank you serving our country...from the bottom of my heart. May you rest assured that David is in great hands now.
David A Wilkey Jr
2007-07-18
I know i never got to meet you.But i have heared alot about you.God bless your family and your newest members of the family!
PFC Wilke,Rebecca