Memorial Gate
Details:
The entrance to the American POW Cemetery behind Cell Block 4, beyond the original prison walls. Note that the American Cemetery at Dartmoor Prison does NOT have public access as it stands within the limits of the modern-day convict prison. Commemorative Object A stone arch with a bronze plaque serving as the entrance to the American POW Cemetery, erected in 1928 and donated by the United States Daughters of 1812.
Monument Text:
Gateway Arch Plague:
To the Glory of God
and in Loving Memory of
the two hundred and eighteen
American sailors and soldiers
of the War of 1812 who died here
This Memorial Gateway
is erected by the
National Society United States
Daughters of 1812
30th May 1928
