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Another close by bears the following inscription:—
C^r Cit
Adelaide Barrin Du Puyleaune[11] De La
Commune De Montravers Dept
Des Deux Sevres Nee le 31 Avril
1771 Decedee a Okehampton le 18
Fevre 1811 Fille le Legitme Dal
F^{are} Barrion Notaire et Procav^{re}
De Machecoura ne de N^{re}
Ici repose la mere & l’enfant
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Footnote 11:
Entered in the Death Register of the parish as Ann Duchane.
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Many prisoners on parole died and were buried at Moretonhampstead, but
the grave-stones are not easily decipherable. The following entries of
burial appear in the Register:—
Jan. 24 1811 Jean Francois Rohan French Officer on Parole. June 11
1811 Arnaud Aubry Lieutenant on Parole. Buried in Wooling (Shroud)
according to act of Parliament.
Of the numerous French prisoners who died at Princetown no account
appears in the parish register, and to quote again from Capt. Vernon
Harris’ book:
Little attention appears to have been paid to the last resting-place
of these unfortunates. We read in the account published by R. Evans
that the burial place of the unfortunate captives has been sadly
neglected. Horses and cattle have broken up the soil and left the
bones of the dead to whiten in the sun.
This will be readily understood when it is remembered the prison
remained unoccupied from 1816 until about the year 1850. To Capt.
Stopforth, who was Governor of the prison in 1865, belongs the honour of
collecting the remains of the prisoners and burying them in two separate
enclosures on the northern side of the prison way from the public road,
and erecting monuments which are at present existing, being granite
columns; the one on the left or western side being the French, bears the
following inscription:—
In memory of the French
Prisoners of War who
died in Dartmoor Prison
between the years 1809
and 1814 and lie buried here
“Dulce et decorum
est pro patriâ mori.”
The other, being the American, bears the same inscription except that
the word “French” is altered to “American.”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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