Notable Members
- Colonel John Winthrop - First commander, South Regiment
- Captain John Underhill - First full-time training officer, Commander Boston Company
- Captain Myles Standish - First commander Plymouth Company (211th FA Lineage)
- Colonel Robert Cowden - Regimental commander who organized the unit as a three year volunteer regiment for the Civil War.
- Corporal Nathaniel M. Allen - Was awarded the Medal of Honor for saving the regimental colors from capture during the Battle of Gettysburg.
- Major Asa M. Cook - first commander Light Artillery Company, 1st Brigade. Served in American Civil War.
- Sergeant Michael J. Kelley - While serving with Echo Battery, 101st Field Artillery (TAB) at Camp Salerno, Afghanistan was killed in action on 8 June 2005 after the helicopter landing zone he was working at was hit by rocket fire. He was the first Massachusetts National Guardsman killed in action after the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001.
- Private Walter Brennan, three-time Academy Award–winning actor, served with the 101st in France in World War I.
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