Peter Gamble, USN-- Part 1

The destroyer USS Gamble (DD-123) was named after two Gamble brothers.  Peter Gamble lost his life at the Battle of Lake Champlain.

From Find-A-Grave.

BIRTH:  Unknown

DEATH:  11 September 1814

BURIAL:  Riverside Cemetery, Plattsburgh, New York.

His gravestone is now almost illegible.  There is another stone on the ground which is readable:

Lieutenant

Peter Gamble

U.S.N.

Sept. 11, 1814

Battle of

Plattsburgh

--Brock-Perry