English: To commemorate the 75^th anniversary of the death in combat of Frederick William of Brunswick (Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig), the Duchy of Brunswick obtained permission to build a memorial close to the place where he was shot dead.

The monument was funded by public subscription, and inaugurated on June 16^th, 1890 in the presence of the local authorities.

The monument was restored early 2015 for "Waterloo 200", a series of events commemorating the bicentennial of the Battle of Waterloo.

The inscriptions read :
Right face (western side, shown) :
Friedrich Wilhelm Herzog zu Braunschweig und Lüneburg kämpfte und fiel unweit dieser Stätte an der Spitze seiner Truppen am XVI Juni MDCCCXV.
Translation :
Friedrich-Wilhelm Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg fought and fell not far from this place at the head of his troops on 16 June 1815.
Left face (eastern side) :
Dem Andenken des Helden und seiner mit ihm für Deutschland gefallenen Krieger – Das dankbare Vaterland
Translation :
In memory of the hero and his warriors who fell with him for Germany – The grateful fatherland

On that fatal 16^th of June night –– Colonel Johann Elias Olfermann (1776-1822), then second-in-command of the Brunswick Corps, wrote the following report to the government : "Our much-loved Duke was hit by a musket ball which smashed through one hand, his abdomen and his liver. This tragic incident occurred about 6 PM when His Grace was personally leading two battalions against a strong enemy column which was threatening our entire right flank. Despite being heavily outnumbered, it held back the enemy for a long time, but finally had to fall back on the second line. The last words the Duke spoke before his death were to Major von Wachholtz, and were : "Oh, my dear Wachholtz, where is Olfermann ?".