William R. Zachary

Date of DeathMarch 15 1938
Buried
Plot
G
Row
3
Grave
14

Notes
A 54 year old American man born in Knoxville, Tennessee who enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on August 7, 1906. In 1906 he served in Cuba during the Pacification Campaign and and in February 1910, he also served in the first intervention of Nicaragua. In August 1910, he was transferred to Camp Elliot Canal Zone, Panama where he was honorably discharged. Mr. Zachary stayed in Panama where he was employed by the Panama Canal Company as a policeman until retirement on July 31, 1933 and remained in Panama where he died on March 15, 1938, and buried at the Mt. Hope Cemetery. reinterred at the Corozal American Cemetery in 1979. He was the recipient of the Roosevelt Medal with One bar.