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Fort Leavenworth Military Prison Cemetery

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The last known interment in the cemetery occurred under special circumstances in May 2023, when the remains of U.S. Navy Lt. Andrew Chabrol, who had been executed by Virginia in 1993 for the 1991 abduction, rape and murder of a female enlisted sailor, were relocated from a niche at the columbarium of
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Otherwise, as families of soldiers who die while in custody of the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks are expected to claim the bodies, the U.S. military does not have any plan for future burials.
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Arlington National Cemetery in accordance with a provision in the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act.
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A headstone in the back row (11th) of a German POW buried at the site. This prisoner was
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Fort Leavenworth Military Prison burial data from Interment.net
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Fort Leavenworth Historical Society, "German POW Execution"
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who were executed in 1945 (for the murders of fellow-POWs
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List of people executed by the United States military
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Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery
Leavenworth National Cemetery
USP Leavenworth Cemetary

Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Coordinates
39°22′13″N 94°55′24″W / 39.37028°N 94.92333°W / 39.37028; -94.92333
United States Disciplinary Barracks
Find a Grave
Fort Leavenworth Military Prison Cemetery
cemetery
Fort Leavenworth
Leavenworth County, Kansas
United States Disciplinary Barracks

hanged
Johannes Kunze
German prisoners of war
Johannes Kunze
Horst Günther
Werner Drechsler
List of people executed by the United States military


Fort Leavenworth Historical Society, "German POW Execution"



Fort Leavenworth Military Prison burial data from Interment.net
"At Arlington National Cemetery, a convicted killer rests among heroes"

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