John Cole is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
John Cole
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4201253
Unit:
Merchant Ship Adeline
Date of Death:
1814-11-26
State:
Maryland
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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John Cole was a 38-year-old seaman from Baltimore who served aboard the merchant ship Adeline. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Cole died on November 26, 1814, with peripneumonia recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.