Lieutenant-Colonel HENRY MONCKTON,
45th Regiment
1740-78

Monmouth, NJ

Henry Monckton (1740-78), fourth son of the 1st Viscount Galway, and younger brother of General Robert Monckton, was in command of the Second Battalion of Grenadiers when he fell at Monmouth. According to Boatner's Encyclopaedia of the war, he "fell mortally wounded so close to the hedge that Wayne's men captured his body and the colo[u]rs of his battalion". He is buried at the Old Tennent Church, which had been a field hospital, close to the Battlefield.

Lt Col. Henry Monckton's Grave, Monmouth, NJ

Photo: Richard Brandstetter

LT. COL. HENRY MONCKTON
WHO ON THE PLAINS OF
MONMOUTH JUNE 28,1778,
SEALED WITH HIS LIFE, HIS
DUTY AND DEVOTION TO
HIS KING AND COUNTRY
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THIS MEMORIAL ERECTED
BY SAMUEL FRYER WHOSE
FATHER, A SUBJECT OF
GREAT BRITAIN, SLEEPS IN
AN UNKNOWN GRAVE
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