Privates
PATRICK GRAY, JAMES HALL
& THOMAS SMITH,
4th Regiment
Concord, Mass.
Three Privates of the Light Company of the 4th Foot, were killed
at the North Bridge during the retreat from Concord on 19 April
1775.Two of them are buried near the bridge. The third - it is
uncertain which - who died of wounds, is buried in the town in the
vicinity of Monument Street, and now has his own new marker! There
was a formal ceremony, with UK representatives, on Remembrance Sunday
in November 2000.
Photo: Rich
Stevenson
19 APRIL 1775
NEAR THIS SITE WAS BURIED
A BRITISH SOLDIER OF THE
4th. THE KING'S OWN REGt OF FOOT,
FATALLY WOUNDED AT NORTH BRIDGE
The other two have a joint memorial by the Bridge, with some
lines by James Russell Lowell, which, though somewhat patronising,
are generous in spirit. And I do wonder if Patrick Gray was perhaps a
Scot. (But WhistleWorld loves J.R.
Lowell anyway, because he was Charley Lowell's uncle and wrote a poem
about Rob Shaw!)
Photo: Rich
Stevenson
GRAVE OF BRITISH SOLDIERS
THEY CAME THREE THOUSAND MILES AND DIED
TO KEEP THE PAST UPON THE THRONE.
UNHEARD, BEYOND THE OCEAN TIDE,
THEIR ENGLISH MOTHER MADE HER MOAN
APRIL 19 1775
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