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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 .
Bio: Admiral Richard Henry Leigh
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Feb 4, 1946
Last Updated: Jan 28, 2010
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Admiral Richard Henry Leigh
Born August 12, 1870 in Batesville (Panola Country) Mississippi Son of Elbridge Garry Leigh & Susan (Gattis) Leigh Married Minnie Hartwell Barksdale February 15, 1897 (no children) Died at Long Beach, California, February 4, 1946
Graduated from the US. Naval Academy 1891
Ensign, United States Navy, 1891 Vice Admiral 1930 Admiral 1931
Commanding Officer, USS. Galveston 1913-15 Assistant Chief, Bureau of Engineering until 1918 Chief of Staff, US. Naval Forces in Europe 1918-19 Assistant Chief, Bureau of Navigation 1919-20 Commanding Officer, USS. Tennessee until 1924 Student, Naval War College 1924-25 Chief of Staff, United States Fleet 1926-27 Chief, Bureau of Navigation 1927-30 Commander, Battleships, Battle Force 1930-31 Commander-in-Chief, Battle Force 1931-32 Commander-in-Chief, United States Fleet 1932-33 Chairman, Navy General Board 1933-34 Retired 1934 Served in Spanish-American War. Served onboard battleship USS Oregon during the Boxer uprising in China 1900. Among the Navy Officers convened to investigate the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor. While Assistant Chief, Bureau of Engineering he helped develop listening devices for hunting submarines.
Admiral served as Commander-in-Chief of the United States Fleet in the 1930s.
LEIGH, RICHARD HENRY ADMIRAL US NAVY RETIRED VETERAN SERVICE DATES: Unknown DATE OF DEATH: 02/04/1946 DATE OF INTERMENT: 03/27/1946 BURIED AT: SECTION 4 SITE 3055 SS ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
