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Remembering Our Own: Santa Cruz Veterans
Creator
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Nelson, Robert
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Reproduced by permission of Robert L. Nelson and The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.
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Nelson, Robert L. Remembering Our Own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Nelson, Robert L. Old Soldier: the story of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Cruz County. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2004.
Publisher
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
Description
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Biographies of military personnel from Santa Cruz County.
The majority of this collection is compiled from the work of local researcher Robert L. Nelson. The information is taken from his two books, "Old Soldier: the story of the Grand Army of the Republic in Santa Cruz County" and "Remembering Our Own" the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010."
For more information about this collection see the <a href="/omeka/about-the-remembering-our-own-collection">About page "Remembering Our Own</a>."<br /><br />Copies of "Remembering Our Own" are available through the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.
Also included in this collection are video recordings of interviews with American war veterans. These interviews were conducted as part of the Library of Congress Veterans History Project.
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December 24, 1941, was not the joyful holiday that Loiya Burns had prepared for her husband.
William Richard Burns was born about 1906. No information is available as to his parents, place of birth, siblings or formative years.
Burns joined the US Navy in 1925 and throughout his naval career, he served on various ships and at several posts. He continued to advance in rank and by 1941, was a Yeoman first class.
While in the navy, he met and married Loiya Galeener of Watsonville, California. His petty officer rating afforded him an opportunity to have his wife and eleven-year old son, Dennis, accompany him in Hawaii. In June 1941 Loiya and Dennis returned to California and made their home with her parents in the Pajaro Valley.
Petty Officer First Class William Richard Burns was serving in the vicinity of the Philippine Islands on December 10, 1941, when he was killed in action or buried at sea. The telegram notifying his widow of his death arrived at the family home on Christmas Eve.
His body was never recovered and he is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing at Manila American Cemetery. His awards include the Purple Heart.
(ABMC; Watsonville Morning Sun December 28, 1941 1:2)
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William R. Burns (1941/12/10)
Subject
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Burns, William
Veterans
Wars-World War II
Creator
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Nelson, Robert L.
Source
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Remembering our own: the Santa Cruz County military roll of honor 1861-2010. Santa Cruz, CA: The Museum of Art & History, c2010.
Publisher
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries
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EN
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OBIT
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RO-BURNS,W
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1940s
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Reproduced by permission of Robert L. Nelson and The Museum of Art and History.
Biography
County at War