Richard Robert Lee is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Richard Robert Lee
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4405537
Unit:
Merchant Ship Argus
Date of Death:
1815-01-20
State:
Massachusetts
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Richard Robert Lee was a 23-year-old seaman from Massachusetts who served aboard the merchant ship Argus. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Lee died on January 20, 1815, with phthisis recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.