THE  DOVER WAR MEMORIAL  PROJECT

The Casualties

May their Name Live for Evermore

Welcome to Dover's Virtual War Memorial

Patrons Dearly Remembered :

Dame Vera Lynn, CH, DBE, LL.D, M.Mus
Patron 2010-2020

Admiral of the Fleet the Lord Boyce, KG, GCB, OBE, DL
Lord Warden and Admiral of the Cinque Ports and Constable of Dover Castle
Patron 2012-2022

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Scroll down for the initial entries about those we so sadly lost.  Information about casualties may be in several places. Links in the entries and/or the search will help locate more. This site is continuously updated from extensive research. If you can't find what you want on this Virtual Memorial, please ask. If there's something we should know  - please tell us    Help Dover Remember those who gave all they could Images are optimised; please ask if you require a better quality picture,  Photographs of service headstones in all cemeteries in Dover (and far beyond!) may also be obtained from The War Graves Photographic Project The Dover War Memorial Project is run entirely by volunteers.  The total monthly costs of running the Project are here. Thank you to everyone who has helped the Project so far. click here for donations and other ways you can help too

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Little did my mother think, The day she cradled me, What land I was to travel in, What death I was to die.

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1. SERVICE CASUALTIES ON THE TOWN MEMORIAL
There are 855 men commemorated on the Town Memorial, nearly all of whom were casualties of the Great War. 721 of these were commemorated at the unveiling in 1924. The remaining names were added in 1934 (70), 2000 (21), 2009 (22), and 2013 (21)

World War I	World War II
A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H	A to D
I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P	E to L
R  S  T  U  V  W  Y	M to Z
a * beside an individual name indicates identification may be uncertain

More Information
Images of the Memorial Panels	Programme from the Unveiling
Notes from Service Records (still being edited and checked)	de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour - contact us
The Mark Frost Pages more details and other suggestions for WWI casualties on the Memorial, from his research	Missing Names Requests for addition to Memorial Qualifications for Inclusion Types of Commemoration

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2. CASUALTIES IN THE BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE
There are 501 service and civilian casualties commemorated in the Book. They were all casualties of World War II

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3. CIVILIAN CASUALTIES OF DOVER
Great War mostly uncommemorated publicly, WWII mostly in the Book of Remembrance)

World War I	World War II
Died in Dover and Away	Died in Dover	Dates and Places
A to M N to Z	A to D E to H I to L	1939/40 1941 1942
Dates and Places	M to P Q to T U to Z	1943 1944
Map Deaths Injuries Shelters	Died Away:  Click Here	Map Injuries Shelters

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4. MORE DOVORIAN SERVICE CASUALTIES
(not on the Town Memorial nor in the Book of Remembrance -
updated with new names as we discover information - do tell us more)

World War I	World War II
A  B  C  D  F  G  H	B  C  D  E+F  G  H
J   K  L  M  N  O  P	K+L  M  N+O  P
R  S  T  U  V  W  Y	R  S  T  V  W
See also  Last Resting Places for Dovorians  - WWI	See also  Last Resting Places for Dovorians - WWII
The Last Word headstones in local cemeteries for Dovorian World War Fallen

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8. MORE MEMORIALS IN THE DOVER AREA
(memorials in the borough and rural district)

The Belsey Pages
The Borough of Dover
Mr Belsey's List of War Memorials in Dover
Companies	Divisions	Schools	Churches
Cable Ship "Alert"	1st/3rd Kent Bty	Boys' Grammar WWI    WWII	Beacon	Buckland Wesleyan	Unitarian
G & A Clark Ltd	Cinque Ports Pilots	Dover College	Christ Church	Holy Trinity Memorial Hall	Wesleyan Mission
Dover Harbour Board	Connaught Rangers	Duke of York's Royal Military	Primitive Methodist	Salem Baptist
East Kent Road Car Company	Dover Patrol	Prince of Wales Sea Training	St Andrew's, Buckland	St Barnabas	Town
Gas Works	Trawlers and Mine-Sweepers	St Mary's WWI  WWII	St Columba	St James	Crosses
South Eastern and Chatham Railway	Air Sea Rescue and Marine Craft honours	St Martin's	St Martin of Tours	St Mary in Castro	Plaques
Palmer's Coachbuilders			St Mary's (inside)	St Mary's (outside)	Miscellaneous
			SS Peter and Paul, Charlton	St Paul, RC	Living Memorials
Acts of Remembrance
The Rural District of Dover (pre 1972)
St Anthony of Pamiers, Alkham	St Mary, Capel-le-Ferne	St Lawrence the Martyr, Church Hougham	St Pancras, Coldred	Denton/Wootton
St Martin of Tours, Guston	St John the Evangelist, Kingsdown	St Mary, St Augustine E and W Langdon	St Mary, Lydden	St Nicholas, Ringwould	SS Peter and Paul, River
St Margaret of Antioch,St Margaret's	St Andrews, Shepherdswell	SS Peter and Paul, Sutton-by-Dover	SS Peter and Paul, Temple Ewell	Upper Road	St Peter, Westcliffe
St Peter, Whitfield	URC, Whitfield	Whitfield Fallen by James Steeples	Whitfield
Random Others (outside the Rural District)
Eythorne	Faversham Munitions Workers	Castle Hill, Folkestone	North Board, Folkestone	The Glatton, Gillingham	St Lukes, Hawkinge
Hawkshill Freedown
Tilmanstone	Sandwich	Swingfield	Waldershare	Walmer Sea and Land Scouts
Random Others (further afield)
The Birth of Radar Litchborough				Newport Pagnell	The Redruth Convalescent Album
with thanks to Tony Belsey, for his inspiring work on Dover Memorials

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"DOVER REMEMBERS"
(volunteers visiting the last resting places of our World War casualties)

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, "Dover Remembers" them.   One of the Forget-Me-Nots in a Corner of a Foreign Field

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