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Camp Strickland
A California State Guard
camp established at Lake Hemet in 1942 as the 3d Area Field Training
Camp. It was officially designated Camp Strickland by General
Orders 55 to honor the memory of Sergeant Hugh Boyton Strickland
of Company H, 5th Regiment who was killed in the line of duty
at Camp
Chino on 13 February
1942.
Sources: History
of the California State Guard.
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