William Read is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
William Read
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4302696
Unit:
Merchant Ship Race Horse
Date of Death:
1815-06-03
State:
New Hampshire
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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William Read was a 25-year-old seaman from Portsmouth who served aboard the merchant ship Racehorse. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Read died on June 3, 1815, with no cause of death recorded. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.