Jonathan D. Winterbottom

Died: May 23, 2007

Rank: Corporal

Unit: 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized)

Branch: U.S. Army

Corporal Jonathan D. Winterbottom gave his life for his country on May 23, 2007, in Al Nahrawan, Iraq, just outside of Baghdad, when a makeshift bomb hit his vehicle while supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Winterbottom, just a week shy of his 22nd birthday, was serving as a medic with the 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Bri­gade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized), out of Fort Benning, Georgia. A fellow Soldier, Corporal Victor H. Toledo Pulido of Hanford, California, was also killed in the explosion. Winterbottom is buried next to his mother in Oakwood Cem­etery in Falls Church, Virginia.