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Ill REFERENCE SHEET.
From Naval Attache, To Director of Naval
British Embassy, Intelligence,
Washington, D.C. Admiralty, London.
Date 3rd August, 1936.
INFORMATION REQUESTED REGARDING GRAVE OF BRITISH
NAVAL OFFICERS AND MEN ON SANDY HOOK. N.J._
•
Colonel L.N. Magrudger, 7th Coast Artillery,
commanding Fort Hancock, New Jersey, in a letter dated
July 23rd, 1936, states that there is a grave on Fort
Hancock Military Reservation which is stated "by a local
historian to contain the remains of Lieutenant the Hon.
Hamilton Haliburton, R.N., Lieutenant James Champion, R.N.,
and of twelve 1 young gentlemen', who having "been landed from
H.M.S. ASSISTANCE in December 1783 to search for deserters,
perished in a snow-storm.
Colonel Magruder states, that, if sufficient data
can "be obtained, it is proposed to restore the monument
reported to have "been erected over the grave by Catherine,
Countess Dowager of Morton, and to this end would be grateful
for the following information, if readily available:-
1. Name of vessel and actual date of death
of the fourteen members of the Royal
Navy.
2. Names of those involved.
3. Names of present descendants, if any.
4. Description of monument erected by
Catherine, Countess Dowager of Morton.
5. • •
Any other pertinent data concerning the
event,
(8igned)
For Captain, R.N.,
Naval Attache.