The Monument
BURIAL MARKER SIDE
FORTY BRITISH REGULARS DIED IN
MENOTOMY ON APRIL 19, 1775
AS THEY RETREATED FROM
LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
THEY ARE BURIED HERE
IN A MASS GRAVE
THEY ANSWERED THE CALL OF KING AND COUNTRY
THEY ARE REMEMBERED AND
RESPECTFULLY ACKNOWLEDGED
Dedicated September 2024
CENOTAPH SIDE
WHETHER BURIED HERE OR
ELSEWHERE WITH NAMES
KNOWN OR LOST TO
HISTORY. THE HUMANITY
OF THESE BRAVE MEN IS
RESPECTFULLY ACKNOWLEDGED.
I DO NOT KNOW WHERE THE
BODY OF MY DEAR BOY LIES
BUT HIS SOUL IS HERE.
Dedication Ceremony
MONUMENT TO
FALLEN CROWN SOLDIERS
who died on April 19th, 1775
DEDICATION CEREMONY
Saturday, September 7, 2024
10 am
(Rain Date September 14th)
OLD BURYING GROUND
Arlington, Massachusetts
WELCOME
Angela Olszewski
Co-Chair, Arlington 250 Committee
HISTORICAL REMARKS AND
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
George Parsons
Chairman, Monument Committee
Arlington Historical Society
LIFE OF A BRITISH SOLDIER
IN 1775 AMERICA
William Rapp, Ph.D
Major General, U.S. Army (Ret.)
Arlington Historical Society
COMMEMORATION OF FALLEN
COMRADES AND CONCLUSION
His Majesty’s 10th Regiment of Foot
Lt. Colonel Michael Graves, Commanding
Tenth Regiment of Foot Ceremony
HM 10th Regiment of Foot in America
Buried Here
This list was provided by James Hollister and Simone Monteleone of the Minuteman National Historical Park.
There are an additional 36 men killed. Their names are unknown at this time
From the Grenadier Company, 4th Regiment of Foot
Sergeant Alexander Thompson, John Titmous
From the Light Infantry Company, 4th Regiment of Foot
Lt. Edward Hull, Thomas Smith, Patrick Gray, James Marr
From the battalion companies, 4th Regiment of Foot
Lt. Joseph Knight, Thomas Horsman, Christopher Strachan, John Muro, Colin Carsill, John Morris
From the Light Infantry Company, 10th Regiment of Foot
John Gregg
From the Grenadier Company, 18th Regiment of Foot
John Russell
From the Light Infantry Company, 23rd Regiment of Foot
George Cooper, Philip Pitts
From the Battalion Companies, 23rd Regiment of Foot
Corporal Robert Ogilvie, Corporal Charels Drake, Roger Foster, James Brush, William Brown, John Eustiss, John Mitchell, James Donald
From the Grenadier Company, 38th Regiment of Foot
Daniel Rogers, William Tallis
From the Light Infantry Company, 38th Regiment of Foot
Thomas Alsop, Charles Tyrell
From the Light Infantry Company, 43rd Regiment of Foot
James Davis, John Buchanan, Jonathan Maud
From the 47th Regiment of Foot
Francis Fulton, David Glasson
From the Grenadier Company, 52nd Regiment of Foot
John Bateman, James Wamsley, John Maidonant
From the Light Infantry Company, 52nd Regiment of Foot
William Dalhunty
Ground-penetrating radargram, October 2022
Background Information
Fallen Crown Soldiers Background Information
Books for Further Reading
Accomplishing the Impossible: Leadership That Launched Revolutionary Change Hardcover – October 5, 2021
by William E. Rapp (Author), General Joe Dunford USMC Ret. (Foreword)
A scholarly look at the leadership on both sides during the critical first days of the American Revolution
The Two Georges: A Novel of an Alternate America Paperback – January 1, 1997
by Richard Dreyfuss (Author), Harry Turtledove (Author)
A science fiction alternate history of how the American Revolution might never have happen if George Washington and King George III had been friends and how that would have changed history.
Acknowledgements
Arlington 250 Committee
Arlington Commission for Arts & Culture
Arlington Historical Society
British and Commonwealth Remembrance Committee
Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area
Monument Committee
George Parsons (chair), Richard A. Duffy, Angela Olszewski, Joann Robinson, James Normington, Alan Jones & Stewart Ikeda
Town of Arlington
Arlington Cemetery Commission (Michele Hassler)
Arlington DPW, site preparation (Michael Rademacher)
Arlington Historical Commission, front inscription (JoAnne Robinson)