William Coleman is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
William Coleman
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4303547
Unit:
Merchant Ship Hawke
Date of Death:
1814-11-05
State:
North Carolina
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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William Coleman was a 24-year-old seaman from North Carolina who served aboard the merchant ship Hawke. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Coleman died on November 5, 1814, with pneumonia recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.