THE  DOVER WAR MEMORIAL  PROJECT

St Peter and St Paul, Charlton

Inside the church are two windows, to Saints Alban and Herbert, dedicated for the safe return from the South African campaign of Herbert and Alban Boynham, the two sons of a former incumbent

European War 1914-1916 Roll of Honour		European War 1914-Nov.11.1918 Roll of Honour
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man  lay down his life for his friends		Greater love hath no man than this, that a man  lay down his life for his friends
Albert Dearlove Lionel Halford Hughes William Stewart Blackett Henry Burley Robert Myles Heywood William Dunn Gordon Osborn Raymond Parsons George Sandeman Horace Benjamin Tucker Vere de Hoghton Sydney Bordeaux Cook Robert O'Lone Henry Edwin Daniell Francis Daniell John Huskisson Parr-Dudley* Harold Church Walter Ernest Hanwell John Allen Mills Humphry W. Arden	John Thomas Hanson John Butcher Cecil Francis Jackson Percy John Maxted Thomas Wall Henry Nicholass Maurice Paul Tierney Cecil Percy John Bromley Henry Frederick Barton Harry Le Marchant Lovell William Charles Parsons Stanley James Parsons Robert James Dowle Reginald Victor Dunn Albert Ernest Heron Stanhope Douglas William Geoffrey Church William Menzies C.Roy Barrett Frank Hall		Arthur James Nash Bernard Ponny Cuthbert H C Wills Godfrey Cook Rolland Sutton Franks James Alexander Sarsons Michael Bridgeland Reeves Charles Kingsnorth Henry Charles Nicholas Frederick Richard Coppard John Collon Fox Harold Cave Frederick Stephen Hall George Bloomfield Albert Victor Harris William Robert Dowle Charles Edward Ellis Montague William Johnson
Grant them, Lord, Eternal Rest, and let light perpetual shine upon them		Grant them, Lord, Eternal Rest, and let light perpetual shine upon them

At the north west end of the church there is an unusual memento of the Second World War. The last north west pillar is displaced on its column (see right). We were told it was lifted by the shock of an explosion in September 1944, during one of the last of the many enemy bombardments suffered by Dover

(Above) Charlton church from Frith Road. The cross atop the pinnacle was dedicated on Monday 4th June, 1951, to replace the one damaged in the war.

The Rector, Rev H W Budgen (left), climbed up the scaffolding then in place, a distance of 70 feet, or over a hundred rungs of the ladders, to perform the ceremony, accompanied by his churchwarden and two workmen.

In the picture below, by Martin Jacolette, Dover photographer, the older Charlton church may be seen in the foreground. It was demolished at the end of the 19th century

*John Huskisson Parr-Dudley was known as "Husky" to his comrades

pictures by Simon Chambers