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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 .
1913-1915, USS Galveston (CL-19)
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Chain of Command Commanding Officer, USS. Galveston 1913-15
Crew Roster on 28 January 1915 Officers Commander Richard H. Leigh, Commanding Lieutenant Lewis Coxe, Executive and Ordnance Lieutenant Vaughan K. Coman, Navigator Lieutenant Pierre L. Wilson, Senior Engineer Ensign Fredrick G. Reinicke Ensign John F. Donelson Ensign Harold E. Snow Ensign Stanley P. Tracht Ensign Raymond V. Hannon P. A. Surgeon Montgomery A. Stuart Asst. Paymaster Richard S. Robertson Boatswain Charles L. Greene Gunner William T. McNiff Gunner Stephen A. Farrell Machinist James A. Ward Chief Carpenter Clarence L. Bennett Pay Clerk John J. Lynch Chief Master-at-Arms E. Ganeau Masters-at-Arms, First Class F. L. Funderberg N. A. Landoc Masters-at-Arms, Second Class L. Eurton W. Condon Chief Boatswain's Mate A. F. Houle
Other Memories Originally the USS Galveston was listed as Cruiser Number 17.
On 8 August 1921, she was reclassified CL-19. She also intermittently patrolled in the Gulf of Mexico with periodic calls at ports of Florida, Texas, Alabama, and Louisiana. On January 25, 1922 Galveston landed her marine detachment at Corinto, Nicaragua, to reinforce the Managua legation guard during a period of political tension. The end of this service was climaxed by a visit to her namesake city in Texas, where she arrived from Panama 26 August 1923 to represent the Navy at the American Legion convention. She then steamed to the Charleston Navy Yard and decommissioned 30 November 1923. During this last cruise she was commanded by Captain R. E. Pope.
