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THE
DOVER WAR MEMORIAL PROJECT
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"Latest News" and Newsletter Archive
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18 June 2020 We are deeply saddened that
our beloved patron and supporter
Dame Vera Lynn
has passed away We will always
remember her with great affection;
her cheerfulness, her sense of humour, her encouragement, and her
indomitable spirit She will be
sorely missed.
Thank you, Dame Vera, for everything |
INDEX
picture "Yesterday's News" by Simon
John Chambers
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Contents of the Newsletters -
"From the Front" |
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Spring 2010 |
Dedication of New Plaque; Belgian tv filming;
Jack Pulham; SarahWilkinson; Mundella School Memorial; Battle of
Britain "menu" |
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Summer 2010 |
Evacuation; Lt Rupert Morrison; Simon's Memorials
- Rhiw; South Africans visit, Raymond Brett; CAMRA donation; Brant
Ontario War Memorial - Claringbould and King; Albert Goddard Port;
Exhibition "70 Years On" |
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Autumn 2010 |
Wotton Bassett - James Bowman, Neal Turkington,
Arjun Purja Pun, Matthew Harrison; Daniel Holkham; Battle of Britain
70th; Merchant Navy Day; Unknown Warrior; Harry Brocklesby Bartram;
Obituary - Reg Levy, Ethel Lewis, Ena Hopper, Elsie Bones, Charles
Sisley; A visit from Australia - Colin Ackehurst, with Old Dover;
Pubs - Terminus, Boar's Head, Liberty, Red Lion, Admiral Harvey,
Three Horseshoes, Cat and Custard Pot; Church Road Peace Treat 1919 |
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Winter 2010 |
Dame Vera Lynn; the 90th Anniversary of the
Unknown Warrior; St Mary's Bellringers' Peal, Passenger Luggage Van
132, Battle of Britain WeatherVane - Dover Grammar; Brunssem;
Brantford, Ontario; Harry Brooks; Dover Town Council grant; World
Conker Championshops |
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Spring 2011 |
Mayor's Civic Award; White Cliffs; Unknown
Warrior - Rev David Railton, Rev George Standing, Rev Edward Gell;
Platform 8 Mystery, Victoria; HM Hospital Ship "Anglia" - Cann,
Ross, Cockrane, Astbury, Richard Roberts; Reggie Davison; Dame Vera
Lynn; Retirement of Town Clerk Mike Webb; Unknown Warrior; Obituary
- Arthur Tolputt, Brenda Brett, Finn Stumoen, Lillian Bennet; Saulte
Ste Marie and Rudyard Kipling; Spitfire - K5054; May Fairs - Great
War Civilian Casualty |
| Summer 2011 |
Admiral the Lord Boyce; Zeebrugge; Brunssem;
Jewish Cemetery, Dover; Royal British Legion County Awards; Kent
County Council Individual Councillor Awards - Gordon Cowan;
CAMRA Award; Deal Fire Station Charity Club Award; Howard Perry Hill
and Peter John Hill; Walter Tull pavilion at Mundella; Exhibition -
"Love Stories: A Day to Remember"; Obituary - Barry Smith, Doris
Bowley, Stolen Memorial plaque from River; Rotary Club of Deal;
Western Heights Preservation Society - Drop Redoubt, and George
Akerley; Crabble Corn Mill Beer Festival; First Moonlight Raid -
Camden Square Rifles Monument; The Toronto Star - Dover in 1941;
Operation Dynamo at Dover Castle; Unknown Warrior Resources and
Exhibition; Maciek O'Shea; Wimpole Hall - Rudyard Kipling,
historical re-enactors; More "Fallen" - Simon John Chambers, Carole
Piqué Webb |
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Autumn 2011 |
Battle of Britain 71st memorial service at
Capel-le-Ferne; fly with a fighter; High Flight by John Magee;
Italian and German Prisoners of War; Romney Hythe and
Dymchurch Railway Armoured Train; 3rd Allied Memorial Remembrance
Ride; Merchant Navy Day in Dover 10th; Folkestone Triennial images x
2; March of Remembrance in Folkestone; Dover Patrol Memorial 90th;
Victoria War Memorial Hospital in Deal; Robert ("Pom Pom") Whiting;
Great Uncle Walter Tull; Doris Bowley; "We Could Have Been Anything"
- Ruth Ewan |
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Winter 2011 |
Severn Valley Railway, James Bryant, Longmoor
Railway Disaster, Cruise Terminal/Marine Station Service, Frederick
John Brookland, Bury St Edmunds Remembrance, Armistice 11/11/11,
Night to Remember Concert, St Margaret of Antioch Lower Halstow, The
Rose Milton Keynes, Klickitat County Stonehenge, Lakenheath F-15,
Edith Cavell, Bill Sparks Cockleshell Hero, John McCrae grave,
Exhibitions, Talk at Dover Society, Seasonal Festivals |
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Spring 2012 |
For Crown and Country - New Exhibition, Operation
Fuller/Cerberus - The Channel Dash, Moonlit Devastation - 23
March 1942, Dash and Raid - Drifters and Trawlers 1918, The Herald
of Free Enterprise, Richard Carpenter, Unknown Warrior at Astor,
Talk at Kent Family History Society - Deal, Lord Warden Chairs
dedicated by the Lord Warden, Nelson Cork, Dame Vera Lynn 95th
birthday, Golden Wedding, Samuel George - new grandson |
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Summer 2012 |
Zeebrugge Raid, bows of Vindictive, new names for
the Memorial, Letter about Bombing in 1917, Alan Turing Centenerary,
"The Great War Explained" by Philip Stevens, "Struck by Lightning"
by John Dann and Eric Gilroy, Armed Forces Weekend, Diamond Jubilee
Tattoo, Lathbury Beacon |
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Autumn 2012 |
New Commemorations for the Town Memorial, The Channel Dash Memorial
- unveiling in Dover, Roger Marples, Donation by Dover Firefighters,
New Cabinet Display in Library, A Load of Hot Air |
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Winter 2013 |
Presentation of the Unknown Warrior window to Astor College for the
Arts, Remembrance in Dover and of Dovorians, Diane Smallwood,
William Walker, Walter Tull in Bolton, Dover Patrol photo - Wyndham
Wallbridge, Western Heights at War! |
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Spring 2013 |
Tommy Eaves writing-albums,, HMS Welshman 70th anniversary service,
Air Sea Rescue HSL 186 - Eric Woolly, Western Heights Garrison in
the Great War, Retyring a Spitfire, Peter Hill, Dambusters - 70th, Horatio
Grant, Geocache GC46H79, Books: Struck by Lightning and Hitler's
Atlantic Wall, Old Bill Tank 1916. |
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Summer 2013 |
Rededication of the bows of the "Vindictive", Obituary - Jean
Barnes, Derek Farrier, Lilian Kay, Dover at War - Armed Forces
Weekend, Western Heights Open Weekend, Dover Transport Museum, New
Exhibitions - Tommy, Tommy Atkins, featuring Tommy Eaves, and Dover
Remembers, featuring casualties newly-commmemorated on the Town
Memorial, Dover Firemen in WWII commended for bravery and awarded
George Cross |
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