The monument honors the nation’s defenders from Waltham by naming Francis H. Priest, Nahum Rand, F.P.H. Rogers, James Roony, Horace Sanderson, Samuel G. Savage, Robert C. Sherman, Simeon Smith, William A. Smith, Thomas E. Stickney, George G. Stone, Daniel Sullivan, Charles Trayner, John G. Thayner, Rufus L. Babcock, Wm. F. Baldwin, Hiram B. Banks, Theodore L. Barnes, Orson A. Banter, John D. Blake, George F. Browne, Charles L. Browne, Henry F. Burgess, Joseph Corrigan, David G. Hatch, John S. Newcomb, Anderson E. Parker, Henry C. Carr, Joseph Holbrook, Maynard Holbrook, Henry W. Howe, B.S. Houghton, Roger Kane, George Lawton, Thomas McAdam, Michael McBride, Patrick McGuire, Leonard H. Miller, Francis Miles, Darius B. Moore, James Murray, James O'Hern, Edward Doherty, John Dillon, John Donnigan, Henry A. Durivage, Thomas Egan, Luman F. Fairbanks, George F. Falls, Lyman Field, Patrick Flynn, John E. Gillespie, Edward Hatch, William Hayes, and Edward Hickey.