William Bean is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
William Bean
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4202096
Unit:
Merchant Ship Malta
Date of Death:
1814-11-28
State:
Virginia
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
Plot:
Row:
Grave:
Decoration:
Comments:
William Bean was a 34-year-old seaman from Virginia who served aboard the merchant ship Malta. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Bean died on November 28, 1814, with peripneumonia recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.