ISOB Allingham
Details:
In the US Navy Plot of the cemetery overlooking the town and harbor.
A granite inscribed obelisk with the US Navy symbol.
James J. Allingham was born in Ireland, later becoming a citizen of New York state. He received a Navy commission as Assistant Surgeon in December 1861 and spent most of the Civil War serving in the gunboat Conemaugh. Allingham was promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon in May 1865. He was then assigned to USS Frolic, which began a European cruise in July 1865. Passed Assistant Surgeon James J. Allingham died at the age of 27 years at Cherbourg, France, on 14 October 1865.
In 1865 James J. Allingham, assistant surgeon of the United States ship "Frolic" having died in Cherbourg, at the hospital, his remains were buried in the local cemetery nearby the place where the victims of the Alabama-Kearsarge encounter were resting and a monument was erected to his memory.
These graves are honored and decorated with flowers and American flags on Memorial Day each year by the American, French local officials, and war veterans associations.
Source: Find a Grave
Monument Text:
TO THE
MEMORY
OF J.J. ALLINGHAM
P.ASST SURGEON
USN
BORN
DIED: OCTOBER 13, 1865
AGED 27 YEARS
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
U.S.S. Conemaugh
U.S.S. Frolic
United States Navy
Wars:
American Civil War
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