314 LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 
Queen’s Road from Chelsea Barracks, has an air of 
dignified repose. It has been closed since 1854. The 
first soldier buried there in 1692, Simon Box, had 
served four kings: Charles I., Charles II., James II., 
and William III. The tombs are much worn with age, 
and it is no longer possible to find some of those 
known to have been laid to rest there. Among them 
are two women who had served as privates; one of 
them, who died in 1739, Christian Davies or “Mother 
Ross,” had served in Marlborough’s campaigns. The 
