Golden Gate Cemetary is open daily from 8am to 5pm.

The unknown remains of 27 members of the Navy, Coast Guard or other service are interred in individual graves along with several whose remains have been identified.

All were among the 320 who died in the July 17, 1944 explosion at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine near Concord, California.

Port Chicago Victims buried in Golden Gate National Cemetery

Unknown, Sailor (twenty-seven total):

Section H (Sites 666, 760, 1057, 1130, 1158, 1216)
Section L (Sites 6038, 6044-6045, 8215, 8246, 8249, 8253, 8285, 8288-8289, 8291-8292, 8300, 8304-8305, 8307-8308, 8328, 8333, 8336, 8342)

Identified Victims (seventeen total, all interred in Section L):

Bridges, James: S2c, US Naval Barracks
Broda, Peter George: BM1c, US Coast Guard
Coffee, Eugene: S1c, US Naval Barracks, Port Chicago
Coley, Enos: S2c, US Naval Barracks, Port Chicago
Hamilton, A D: S2c, US Naval Barracks, Port Chicago
Hughes, Glenn: S2c, US Naval Barracks, Port Chicago
Hughes, Leroy: S2c, US Naval Barracks, Port Chicago
Hunnicutt, Raymond Virgil: Civilian Employee of the US Navy
Johnson, Harold: S2c, US Naval Barracks
Johnson, Milton Frank: S1c, US Naval Barracks, Port Chicago
Mathews, Lawrence: S2c, US Naval Barracks, Port Chicago
McFarland, Clarence K: CCMT, US Naval Barracks, Port Chicago
Nettles, Willis: S2c, US Naval Barracks, Port Chicago
Riley, Charles Hobart, S1c, US Coast Guard
Sanders, Robert: S2c, US Naval Barracks, Port Chicago
Walker, Walter Lee: S2c, US Naval Barracks, Port Chicago
Woods, James Edward: S2c, US Naval Barracks, Port Chicago

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1300 Sneath Lane San Bruno, CA 94066

Contact Details

• Organizer Name: Golden Gate National Cemetery
• Phone: (800) 698-2411
• Website: www.cem.va.gov