Rich Smides is honored on the following 1 monument(s) in our database:
Name:
Rich Smides
Rank:
Seaman
Serial Number:
4404333
Unit:
Merchant Ship Flash
Date of Death:
1815-03-06
State:
New York
Cemetery:
American Prisoner of War Cemetery, Dartmoor Forest, West Devon Borough, Devon, England
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Rich Smides was a 17-year-old seaman from New York who served aboard the merchant ship Flash. During the War of 1812, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war at Dartmoor Prison in Princetown, England. Smides died of smallpox (variola) on March 6, 1815. He was buried at the American Prisoner of War Cemetery in Dartmoor Forest, Devon, England.