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Home Town Batesville (Panola County)
Last Address LEIGH, RICHARD HENRY ADMIRAL US NAVY RETIRED VETERAN SERVICE DATES: 1891-1934 DATE OF DEATH: 02/04/1946 DATE OF INTERMENT: 03/27/1946 BURIED AT: SECTION 4 SITE 3055 SS ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY Died in Long Beach, CA 1946
Date of Passing Feb 04, 1946
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Battle Streamers : Spanish-American War 1898 • China Relief/Boxer Rebellion • The Great War (WWI)
Leigh, Richard H.
Richard Henry Leigh (1870-1946), of Batesville, Admiral of the U.S. Navy and Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet from 1932-1934. Admiral Leigh served as Chief of Staff to Admiral Sims during World War I, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Fleet, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation of the Navy Department, Commander of Battle Force, U.S. Fleet, and Commander in Chief until his retirement for physical disability in 1934. He served as a delegate to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva in 1933 and at London in 1934.
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Graduated from the US. Naval Academy 1891
Ensign, United States Navy, 1891
Vice Admiral 1930
Admiral 1931
RICHARD HENRY LEIGH
ADMIRAL US NAVY RETIRED
VETERAN SERVICE DATES: 1891-1934
DATE OF BIRTH: 08/12/1870
DATE OF DEATH: 02/04/1946
BURIED NEXT TO HIS WIFE
MINNIE (BARKSDALE) LEIGH
DATE OF BIRTH: 09/27/1871
DATE OF DEATH: 02/09/1966
BURIED AT: SECTION 4 SITE 3055 SS ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY .
1927-1930, Bureau of Navigation (BuNav)
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Chain of Command RADM Richard H. Leigh February 1927 - 1930Chief, Bureau of Navigation
Bureau of Naval Personnel
The Bureau was established in 1862 as the Bureau of Navigation. In 1942, it was changed to the Bureau of Naval Personnel. It was disestablished 31 October 1978, and its functions were spilt between the DCNO (Manpower, Personnel and Training) and the Naval Military Personnel Command. Effective 1 October 1998, the name changed to Naval Personnel Command.
