William Board was part of the Perry Expedition to open Japan. The account goes that Board wondered into a house after getting drunk and tried to rape a local girl. Was beaten and got hit by village people with stones and fell into the water and was found to be dead after he was recovered from the water. This account can be read in more detail in Perry's Narrative of the Expedition.
Note: ( As you can see and when I was there taking pictures, he has the only US Grave that has only the year he died and nothing about the rank or the ship he served on.)
Note: ( As you can see and when I was there taking pictures, he has the only US Grave that has only the year he died and nothing about the rank or the ship he served on.)
William Board was part of the Perry Expedition to open Japan. The account goes that Board wondered into a house after getting drunk and tried to rape a local girl. Was beaten and got hit by village people with stones and fell into the water and was found to be dead after he was recovered from the water. This account can be read in more detail in Perry's Narrative of the Expedition.
Note: ( As you can see and when I was there taking pictures, he has the only US Grave that has only the year he died and nothing about the rank or the ship he served on.)
Note: ( As you can see and when I was there taking pictures, he has the only US Grave that has only the year he died and nothing about the rank or the ship he served on.)
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