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On December 12, 1884, the War Department designated 9 acres (3.6 ha), including the site of the old post cemetery, as San Francisco National Cemetery. It was the first national cemetery established on the West Coast and marks the growth and development of a system of national cemeteries extending beyond the battlefields of the Civil War ...
Pages in category "Burials at San Francisco National Cemetery" The following 88 pages are in this category, out of 88 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Desiderio's grave marker in San Francisco National Cemetery. Reginald Benjamin Desiderio [1] (September 12, 1918 – November 27, 1950) was a soldier in the United States Army during the Korean War. He posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions on November 27, 1950, during the Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River.
San Francisco National Cemetery This page was last edited on 12 August 2022, at 07:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4 ...
San Francisco Columbarium & Funeral Home, San Francisco; San Francisco National Cemetery, San Francisco; San Francisco Marine Hospital, was a former psychiatric hospital (operated from 1875 to 1912) with an adjacent cemetery, some of the graves are still visible as of 2006. [18] [19] West Coast Memorial to the Missing of World War II
National Archives "Cornelius J. Leahy, Medal of Honor". Cemeteries - San Francisco National Cemetery. Department of Veterans Affairs "Cornelius J. Leahy, Medal of Honor citation". Citations 1900 Wars. Home of Heroes
Wood died at the Presidio, San Francisco, California on April 14, 1894 at the age of forty-nine, following surgery to remove cancerous tumors of the tongue and throat attributed to his fondness for smoking. [2] He was buried with full military honors at San Francisco National Cemetery two days later.
[20] After subsequent funerals in Philadelphia and New York City, Baker's body was sent by the steamer Northern Light and the Panama Railroad to San Francisco for burial. [3] He is buried in Section OSD, Site 488, San Francisco National Cemetery. [21] Of himself, Baker once said, "my real forte is my power to command, to rule and lead men.