Thomas Ricks is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Thomas Ricks
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4201649
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Date of Death:
1815-01-22
State:
New York
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Thomas Ricks was a 26-year-old seaman from New York who was taken captive in Bristol. During the War of 1812, he was held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Ricks died of rheumatism on January 22, 1815. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.