Fort Leonard Wood Post Cemetery

300 Cemetery Road, Fort Leonard Wood, MO, 65473

GPS Coordinates: 37.776414, -92.125757
County: Pulaski
Record count: 827

Ownership: Office of Army Cemeteries, U.S. Army

Directions: Located inside Fort Leonard Wood, the cemetery sits along the south side of Pulaski Ave, about 1,500 feet west of Missouri Ave, at the end of Cemetery Rd.

Background: Fort Leonard Wood Army post, first established in 1942, was named after Major General Leonard Wood, a former U.S. Army Chief of Staff from 1910-1914. With the establishment of the post also came the establishment of the post cemetery. It's stone wall and gate was built by enemy prisoners of war during WWII. To date, there are nearly 700 burials.

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