UNITED
REFORMED CHURCH
for biographies of the
Fallen see "Whitfield - Casualties of War"
by James Steeples
History
The Memorial was unveiled on Wednesday, 9 June 1920, by the Mayor
of Dover, Councillor C E Beaufoy. The service was conducted by the
Rev D L Nichol, the Congregational minister at Dover. He said, "for
the most part the graves of those brave lads were in some foreign
land, but their memory is treasured by their friends here this
night, and on that tablet their names are recorded, so that those
who come along in years to come might hold their names in reverence
still."
He continued, "Those who had laid down their lives stood between us
and an awful fate, and they had saved civilisation. It was in the
spirit of thankfulness and gratitude that we meet here this evening,
glad and proud in their remembrance. Their names would stand for
scores of generations, to be read by children yet unborn, who would
ask to know the story, and it would be told them how these men laid
down their lives in a great cause."
The tablet was made by Whitnall and Sons, of Dover
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To
the Grateful Memory
of
Albert E. Butterfield
Alfred J Butterfield
Charles Bean W Carswell
George Files Fred Gee
Henry Lawrence Albert Marsh
Charles Marsh Frederick Marsh
Edward Richards
Reginald Sheppard
Residents of this Parish
who made the Supreme Sacrifice
for Honour, Truth, and Right
in the Great War 1914-1919
"Faithful unto Death" |
