William Loveridge is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
William Loveridge
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4404884
Unit:
Merchant Ship Saratoga
Date of Death:
1815-04-06
State:
New York
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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William Loveridge was an 18-year-old seaman from New York who served aboard the merchant ship Saratoga. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Loveridge died on April 6, 1815, with gunshot wounds recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.