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Location: MOJAVE DESERT

City: CIMA

State: California

Zip Code: 92323

Type of Memorial: War Memorial Crosses

Year Dedicated: 1934

Access: Public

Wars Commemorated: WORLD WAR I

Photograph By: LARRY VREDENBURGH


THIS MEMORIAL HONORS THOSE KILLED IN WORLD WAR I. THE MOJAVE MEMORIAL CROSS, OFFICIALLY KNOWN AS THE WHITE CROSS WORLD WAR I MEMORIAL. THE CROSS WAS ERECTED IN 1934. THE CARETRAKERS OF THE SPOT WERE INTRODUCED TO IT BY A PROSPECTOR NAMED JOHN RILEY BEMBY, WHO SERVED AS A MEDIC IN WORLD WAR I AND WAS ONE OF THE VETERANS WHO ESTABLISHED THE MEMORIAL.


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