THE  DOVER WAR MEMORIAL  PROJECT

World War I

DOVER CONNECTION UNKNOWN

In working through the records, there often appear casualties remembered in Dover, but for whom the connections with Dover are uncertain. For completeness, and for possible future clarification, they are listed here. (Reference numbers are to DWMP archived records)

For further information about these casualties, Joyce Banks has been making notes from de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour. Please contact us.

WWII Connections Unknown are here
 

Name	First Name	Rank	Date of Death	Force	Notes	Connection
Nisbet	Frank Scobell	Adjutant	1914	Manchester	parents Matthew Alexander Nisbet and Louisa Janey nee Scobell, m 1875 (Canon Nesbit of Ickham) ref 25h 2 33
Smith	Walter H	Private	18 Aug 1914	Middlesex 6th	a sentry dropped his rifle, it fired and the shot fatally pierced Pvt Smith's side
Dykes	Alfred McNair	Lieutenant Col	26 Aug 1914	Royal Lancaster	www.kingsown museum.com/ dykes01.htm	stationed at Barracks in Dover, at least Mar to Aug 1914, his Will address 4 Park Avenue
Steele-Perkins	Cyril S	Lieutenant	26 Aug 1914	Royal Lancaster
Ward	Arthur Claud	Captain	26 Aug 1914	Lancashire Fusiliers	b Jamaica 1878, son of Col Hon CJWard, m Ruby Mansbridge 1906.	lived at 4 Effingham Crescent
Bolton	J R	Sergeant	26 Aug 1914	Royal Lancaster		engaged to Miss L Horn from Dover 134/74
Bolton	John Robert	Sergeant	27 Aug 1914	Royal Lancaster
Ponsonby	Gerald M	Captain	31 Aug 1914	Royal Inniskilling	DoW b 1876 parents Rev Hon Maurice J G Ponsonby, later 4th Baron Mauley of Canford, Hon Madeleine E A Hanbury-Tracy
Hastings	Percy	Major	2 Sep 1914	Royal West Kent	wife Kathleeen. son Mark in RAF, KiA 29 Jun 1940, aged 27, raid on Frankfurt
Tupper	Ernest	PO 1st Class	2 Sep 1914	RN		from Folkestone, son in law of Mrs Fraser, 13 Primrose Street, born 21 January 1884 at Alkham
Woodgate	Lionel Streatfeild	Lieutenant	9 Sep 1914	Royal Lancaster	b11 June 1888 son of Ernest and Edith, brother William died in SA war 1900	lived at 17 Waterloo Crescent in 1891, father a solicitor and JP
Wyndham	Percy Lyulph	Captain	14 Sep 1914	Coldstream		Father George was MP for Dover 1889-1913, Wyndham Road named after him
Matthews	John Hubert	Captain	15 Sep 1914	Northumberland	born at Walmer
Ames	William Kerr	Lieutenant	17 Sep 1914	Royal West Kent		educated at Dover College; his brother Robert Henry also died
Grubb	Walter B Watkins	:Lieutenant Cdr	22 Sep 1914	RN
Tritton	Robert Edmund	Leading Seaman	22 Sep 1914	RN Aboukir		133/63+65 family from Eastry, but he was born in Dover
Blount	Greville H R	Captain	25 Sep 1914	RFA	1901 census aged 18, was at RFA Barracks, Farnborough, born Bath,
Gatehouse	Frederick	Private	14 Oct 1914	Northumberland Fusiliers	although DE gives "died of wounds" in hospital, France, on 7 Nov	nephew of Councillor Gatehouse
Bean	Samuel John		15 Oct 1914	HMS Hawke	Eythorne
McDougall	Ronald	Lieutenant	20 Oct 1914	The Buffs		see Isle of Wight Memorials
Parkinson	Edgar Matthew	Sergeant	20 Oct 1914	Lancs Fusiliers		134/19
Cocks	Stephen Charles	Sergeant	20 Oct 1914	The Buffs	Eastry, Walmer 134/44
Roe	S G	Captain	21 Oct 1914	Royal Inniskilling
Auchinleck	"Dan"	Captain	21 Oct 1914	Royal Inniskilling
Lendon	Penry Bruce	Captain	21 Oct 1914	Royal Lancaster	b 31 Dec 1882, Wandsworth
Dunlop	Charles	Lieutenant	22 Oct 1914	Royal Inniskilling	son of Fleet Surgeon James Dunlop and Elizabeth, Sandhurst and after graduating went to Front, Lt in Sept 1914, DoW waiting for amputation, on Lisburn Memorial (attended school there)
Webster	Frederick Allan	Sapper	24 Oct 1914	Royal Engineers	DoW received same day	aunt E Haseltine 38 St James St, Dover
Cronk	William Guy	2nd Lieutenant	26 Oct 1914	The Buffs
Stiff	Leonard		7 Nov 1914	Queen's Regiment		b Dover, nephew J Stiff, Erith House, Buckland
Fairs	May	Civilian	May 1915		aged 35, died in Southend, struck by piece of anti-aircraft shell fired during Zeppelin raid. Daughter of William Fairs, a surgeon dentist
Wardell	Robert		1916		aged 18 when died	brother to William, below; they were the only two sons of the family. One sister, Kathleen, remained.
Churchill	Randolph Gordon Aubrey Maximilian		17 Apr 1916		aged 20, HMS Russell, all family born Marylebone except mother Gabrielle born France. Cousin to Henry Wilkes
Wilkes	Henry Edward		8 Sep 1916		DoW, Somme, aged 21, cousin to Gordon Churchill	son of Mrs H and ex-QMS Wilkes, Army pay corps, late of Dover
Johnson	John	Private	3 May 1917	The Buffs	G/5560 commemorated Arras Memorial, born Eastry, enlisted, lived Sandwich, KIA
Bulloch	Robert	Lieutenant	20 Sep 1917	Royal Fusiliers	commemorated Tyne Cot, reported missing, believed killed, death confirmed in Dec	husband of Edith Constance Wild, b Dover, daughter of Edward and Eliza, married St Andrews on 2 July 1917 by special licence
Wardell	William Moss	2 Lieut	23 Mar 1918		awarded MC in 1917 aged 24 when died commemorated on headstone to Wardell family at Charlton	Father Rev Robert John Wardell, Wesleyan Methodist, arrived Dover in September 1923, died Dover 30 June 1924,  wife Elizabeth died Cardiff 1949. It was at Maidstone he heard his sons had been killed; this was said to be the shock of his life though his sorrow did not interfere with his work, though it overshadowed his life to its end. DE18.7.24p3

with very grateful thanks to our great researcher, Joyce Banks, who's finding out more about them all

More casualties whose connection to Dover is unknown will be coming soon.