Box 3252

Photographs, correspondence, and news clippings concerning PFC Richard G. Wilson, who earned a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor for service during the Korean War. The majority of the materials deal with memorials that were dedicated in Wilson’s honor in the period immediately following his death and in later years.

Photographs of Wilson growing up, news clippings about him, and pages from his high school yearbook.

Includes correspondence, programs, news clippings, and photographs pertaining to Wilson’s death and his posthumous receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Includes photographs of the ceremony where Wilson’s widow accepted the award.

Includes the letter releasing Wilson’s remains for burial, photographs and news clippings from the November 3, 1955 memorial service held for Wilson. Includes pictures of the memorial procession in Cape Girardeau, Mo., and the Wilson memorial originally located in Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau, Mo., and later moved to Cape County Park, also in Cape Girardeau, MO.

Photographs and a news clipping about the Richard G. Wilson Memorial Gymnasium in the Kanoka Barracks near Osaka, Japan.

Photocopies of photographs from the March 7, 1959 dedication of the Wilson Theater in Fort Campbell, KY.

Invitation, program and photographs of the 1962 dedication of the Richard G. Wilson US Army Reserve Center in Marion, Il. Also includes a photocopied chapter on Wilson from Medic: America’s Medical Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen in Peace and War by Eloise Engle, 1967.

News clippings, press releases, and a letter pertaining to the opening of the PFC Richard G. Wilson Training Barracks at Fort Sam Houston, Texas in 1986. Also includes DVD recording of the dedications ceremony and a copy of a painting of Wilson depicting his heroic act that won him the Congressional Medal of Honor. The original painting is on display in the Barracks.

News clippings, invitation, and photographs of the 1995 dedication ceremony for the Richard G. Wilson Consolidated Troop Medical Clinic in Fort Leonard Wood, MO.

Articles and photographs of the rededication of a memorial to Wilson, after it was moved to Cape County Park in 1988.