John Flowers is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
John Flowers
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4506169
Unit:
Merchant Ship Lion
Date of Death:
1815-05-06
State:
Massachusetts
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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John Flowers was a 56-year-old seaman from Boston who served aboard the merchant ship Lion. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Flowers died on May 6, 1815, with a burst blood vessel recorded as his cause of death. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.