John Turney is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
John Turney
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4403985
Unit:
Merchant Ship Rattlesnake
Date of Death:
1815-04-05
State:
Massachusetts
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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John Turney was a 23-year-old seaman from Massachusetts who served aboard the merchant ship Rattlesnake. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Turney died of varicola (smallpox) on April 5, 1815. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.