Naval Cemetery on Guam is located at Marine Corps Drive in East Hagåtña (also known as Agana).
Following the June 1898 capture of Guam, Article II of the December 10, 1898 Treaty of Paris transferred Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines to the United States control on December 23.
[1] The cemetery was first opened in 1902 and is the final resting place of US and foreign service members, family dependents, indigenous peoples of the Mariana Islands, and non-American civilians.
[3] During the 1941 Battle of Guam, American prisoners of war William Gautier Johnston, James Barbour, Hiram W. Elliott, and Euell Olive, as well as the fathers of Chester Butler and Arthur W. Jackson, were imprisoned at Japan's Hyogo Ken Internment Camp.
In 1977, his remains were moved to an unspecified cemetery in the continental United States.