THE
DOVER WAR MEMORIAL PROJECT
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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

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
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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. |
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
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World War
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a * beside an individual name indicates identification may be
uncertain |
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More Information |
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The Mark Frost Pages
more details and other suggestions for
WWI casualties on the Memorial, from his research |
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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
World War II only
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3. CIVILIAN CASUALTIES
OF DOVER
Great War mostly uncommemorated
publicly, WWII mostly in the Book of Remembrance)
World War I
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World War II |
Died in Dover and Away |
Died in Dover |
Dates
and
Places |
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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)
5. SERVICE
CASUALTIES INJURED OR DIED BY ENEMY ACTION IN DOVER
(updated with more information as we discover it -
do
tell us more)
6. INDIVIDUAL
MEMORIALS FOR SOME OF OUR CASUALTIES
(created in honour,
with more
information and pictures)
7. WE REMEMBER
TOO

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
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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 |
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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 |
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St Mary's
(inside) |
St Mary's (outside) |
Miscellaneous |
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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 |
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St
Martin of Tours, Guston |
St John the Evangelist, Kingsdown |
St Mary,
St Augustine
E and W Langdon |
St
Mary, Lydden |
St Nicholas, Ringwould
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SS
Peter and Paul, River
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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 |
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Random Others (outside the
Rural District) |
Eythorne |
Faversham Munitions Workers |
Castle Hill, Folkestone |
North Board, Folkestone |
The Glatton, Gillingham |
St Lukes, Hawkinge |
Hawkshill Freedown |
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Tilmanstone |
Sandwich |
Swingfield |
Waldershare |
Walmer Sea and Land Scouts |
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Random Others (further afield) |
The Birth of Radar
Litchborough |
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Newport Pagnell |
The Redruth
Convalescent Album |
with thanks to Tony Belsey, for
his inspiring work on Dover Memorials |
"DOVER REMEMBERS"
(volunteers visiting the last resting
places of our World War casualties)
picture: The Dover War Memorial, from a post card
postmarked 1931
verse: "Little did my mother think" by Thomas Carlyle
picture: Moonrise over the Pharos - Dover Castle from Cowgate cemetery,
Hallowe'en 2007, by Simon John Chambers
picture: Santa visiting graves in a corner of a Foreign Field, Christmas 2006,
by Brian Dixon
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