Memorials Located Within the Borough of Swale, Kent
Memorials
located within the
Borough of Swale, Kent.
Swale Memorials
This document is a list of memorials within the district of Swale and has been compiled by Pat Robinson, Theresa Emmett, Janet Halligan and Stephen Palmer, researchers from the Historical Research Group of Sittingbourne (HRGS), from the research completed by various researchers from within HRGS and other groups, and is still on going.
If you are aware of a memorial (new or no longer around) which should be included, please contact us at: [email protected] or find our website at www.hrgs.co.uk.
The Imperial War Museum www.iwm.org.uk/memorials and War Memorials Online www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk both maintain a register of War Memorials. The registers contain additional information to that produced in this document, which includes the memorial inscription, memorial description, list of names and in some cases dedication information.
The map below shows the spread of the memorials.
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Table of Contents Bapchild ...... 5 Bobbing ...... 5 Borden ...... 6 Boughton under Blean ...... 6 Bredgar ...... 7 Davington ...... 7 Doddington ...... 7 Dunkirk ...... 8 Eastchurch ...... 8 Eastling ...... 9 Faversham ...... 10 Frinsted ...... 14 Goodnestone...... 14 Graveney ...... 15 Hartlip ...... 15 Hernhill ...... 16 Iwade ...... 16 Iwade ...... 17 Leaveland ...... 17 Leysdown ...... 17 Short Brothers ...... 17 Lower Halstow ...... 17 Luddenham ...... 18 Lynsted ...... 18 Milstead ...... 18 Milton Regis ...... 19 Minster ...... 20 Murston ...... 21 Newington ...... 22 Newnham ...... 23 Norton Ash ...... 23 Nouds Farm ...... 24 Oare ...... 24
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Ospringe ...... 24 Otterden ...... 24 Queenborough ...... 24 Rainham ...... 25 Rodmersham ...... 25 Selling ...... 26 Sheerness ...... 27 Sheldwich ...... 29 Stalisfield ...... 34 Teynham ...... 34 Throwley ...... 36 Tonge ...... 37 Tunstall ...... 38 Upchurch ...... 39
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1
Bapchild St Laurence's Church WW1 Memorial School Lane ME9 9NL
2 Bapchild St Laurence's Church WW2 Memorial ME9 9NL
3
Bapchild Lawrence Myers St Laurence's Church Credence Table School Lane WW1 ME9 9NL
4
Bapchild Horace De La Mare St Laurence's Church Hymn Board School Lane WW1 ME9 9NL
5
Bobbing St Bartholomew's Church WW1 Memorial Ferry Road ME9 8PL
6 Lieutenant Maynard Mansfield Bobbing KNIGHT St Bartholomew's Church Memorial Cross Ferry Road Died at Mirgana, ME9 8PL Mesopotania 28/01/1919
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Ref Location Description Picture 7 ELGAR Family Plaque Walter ROBINSON 1939 Bobbing and sons St Bartholomew's Church Godfrey WYATT 1935 Ferry Road and on RAF active service ME9 8PL Christopher MAYLUM
1941 Charles ROBINSON 1943 8 Bobbing Edward Alfred JEFFREY St Bartholomew's Church Sapper R.E. Ferry Road Killed in Action ME9 8PL 30/11/1917
9 Bobbing Albert Henry PAYNE St Bartholomew's Church Gunner R.G.A. Ferry Road Killed in Action in France ME9 8PL 02/11/1916 aged 20
10 2nd Lieutenant Bobbing Douglas Harcourt St Bartholomew's Church STEVENS Ferry Road Killed in Action in France ME9 8PL 06/08/1918 aged 19
11
Borden St Peter and St Paul WW1 and WW2 Church Memorial Cross Wises Lane ME9 8JR
12
Borden Lieutenant St Peter and St Paul Henry WISE R.N. Church Died of fever in West Wises Lane Indies ME9 8JR 21/07/1814 aged 23
13 Boughton under Blean St Barnabas' Parish WW1 and WW2 Centre Memorial Cross The Street ME13 9AP
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14 Memorial Cross Obedietent Anton SCHÖN Boughton under Blean German Pilot St Peter and St Paul Killed in crash Church 27/09/1940 age 20 South Street Reinterred in Cannock ME13 9NB Chase German Military Cemetery
15
Bredgar Memorial Cross WW1 and WW2 Next to pond Memorial Cross Primrose Lane ME9 8EJ
16 Private Ashley Thomas Bredgar GOATHAM St John the Baptist Killed in Action Church in the Battle of The Street Isandhlwana Died ME9 8EU 22/01/1879 aged 24
17 WW1 and WW2 Davington Memorial St Mary Magdalene and Formerly at St Lawrence Church St John the Evangelist Priory Road Church, Faversham ME13 7DT
18 Davington Scholars of Davington St Mary Magdalene and WW2 Memorial St Lawrence Church Formerly at Priory Road Davington School ME13 7DT
19
Doddington St John the Baptist Roll of Honour Church WW1 and WW2 Church Hill ME9 0BD
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20 JEFFREYS Memorial Brothers Doddington John Darrell 1919-1942 St John the Baptist Edmund Henry 1921-43 Church Parents Church Hill Robin Edmund 1890-1963 ME9 0BD Marjorie 1896-1996
21 Doddington Memorial Cross Between Newnham and WW1 and WW2 Doddington Memorial Cross Faversham Road ME9 0BB 22
Dunkirk Private residence WW1 and WW2 Christ Church (redundant) Memorial Cross Canterbury Road ME13 9LE
23 Dunkirk Private residence Sydney George MARSH Building previously Christ R.E.K.Y. Church Died of wounds in France Canterbury Road 13/08/1918 aged 25 ME13 9LE 24 WW1 Memorial Dunkirk to these that served Village Hall (formerly at Christchurch Canterbury Road Church, then at Dunkirk ME13 9LG Primary School)
25
Eastchurch All Saints Church Lychgate High Street WW1 Memorial ME12 4EH
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Ref Location Description Picture 26 Eastchurch, All Saints Church Original WW1 Wooden High Street grave marker inside the ME12 4EH church for John Kenneth WHISH
27 Stained glass window Captain Eastchurch Charles Stewart ROLLS All Saints Church and Warden Road Cecil Stanley GRACE ME12 4EJ Aviators July-December 1910
28 Eastchurch Village Hall Village Hall WW2 Memorial Warden Road Opened 13/08/1958 ME12 4EH
29 Commentative Memorial Eastchurch to the First Home of Opposite the All Saints British Aviation 1909 Church and Church Road First Royal Naval Service ME12 4EH Station 1911
30
Eastling St Mary's Church WW1 Memorial Off Kettle Hill Road ME13 0AY
31
Eastling WW1 Roll of Honour St Mary's Church who came forward Off Kettle Hill Road to fight for their country ME13 0AY
32 WW2 Memorial Frederick Charles Eastling CROUCHER St Mary's Church Able Seaman, R.N. Off Kettle Hill Road and
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Ref Location Description Picture 33 Eastling John PETTET M.M. St Mary's Church Severely wounded WW1 Off Kettle Hill Road Died 18/04/1923 ME13 0AY
34 Albert Thomas DITCHER R.E.K.M.R. Eastling Died 22/09/1902 St Mary's Church and Off Kettle Hill Road Frederick Charles ME13 0AY DITCHER
Royal Horse Guards Died 13/11/1915 35 Faversham Memorial Cross Stone Street WW1 and WW2 ME13 8PR
36 Faversham Memorial Garden Stone Street WW1 and WW2 ME13 8PR Dedicated 03/11/2018
37
Faversham WW1 Roll of Honour St Mary of Charity Church to the men who loyally Church Street took up arms ME13 7BD
38 Faversham St Mary of Charity Church WW2 Book of Church Street Remembrance ME13 7BD
39
Memorial Window Faversham Transvaal War St Mary of Charity Church South Africa Church Street East Kent Men ME13 7BD 1901
40 Faversham Battery Sergeant Major St Mary of Charity Church C.J. GODFREY Church Street Died of Wounds in France ME13 7BD 14/01/1917 aged 37
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Frank ANDREWS Faversham Reported Missing at St Mary of Charity Church Ypres Church Street 22/08/1917 aged 32 ME13 7BD
42 Captain and Adjutant Faversham Gordon Stewart BROWNE St Mary of Charity Church Mentioned in Dispatches Church Street Died of Wounds in France ME13 7BD 27/11/1914 age 25
43 Faversham St Mary of Charity Church WW1 Memorial Chapel Church Street Dedicated 07/06/1922 ME13 7BD
44
George Frederick Faversham WRAIGHT St Mary of Charity Church Fell in Action in France Church Street 30/07/1916 aged 21 ME13 7BD
45 Faversham Corporal John STEEDMAN St Mary of Charity Church Killed in Action in Belgium Church Street 01/11/1914 aged 21 ME13 7BD
46 Captain Thomas Latymer CROSSE B.A. Killed in Action in France Faversham 03/07/1916 aged 27 St Mary of Charity Church Lieutenant Robert Grant Church Street CROSSE ME13 7BD Died of Wounds in France 14/07/1916 aged 22
47 Captain Donald Knox Faversham ANDERSON M.C. St Mary of Charity Church Brother of Colin Church Street Killed in Action in France ME13 7BD Died 03/12/1917
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48 Lieutenant Faversham Colin Knox ANDERSON St Mary of Charity Church Brother of Donald Church Street Killed in action in Belgium ME13 7BD Died 23/08/1914
49 Faversham National Westminster WW2 Memorial Bank Harold A. MAGEE Market Street ME13 7AF
50 Faversham The Umbrella Centre WW1 Memorial (Formerly Rigdens Rigdens Brewery Brewery) Employees Court Street ME13 7AT
51
WW1 Mass Grave Faversham The Great Explosion Faversham Cemetery Gunpowder Works at Love Lane Uplees ME13 7BD 02/04/1916
52 WW2 Memorial Faversham 1st Bn (43rd) Oxfordshire Former Congregational And Buckinghamshire Church Hall Light Infantry Partrigge Lane 35 Killed in N.W. Europe
ME13 7DX
53 WW2 Memorial Faversham Matthew and Michael Our Lady of Mount MURPHY Carmel Merchant Navy Tanner Street Statue of Saint Jude ME13 7JW
54 Memorial Window Faversham Trooper Almshouses Chapel Arthur Douglas MILLER South Road South Africa War ME13 7LU 04/04/1900 aged 25
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Faversham Baptist Church WW1 Memorial St Marys Road ME13 8AQ
56 Faversham WW1 Memorial United Reform Church To those connected to Preston Street the church or school ME13 8EA
57 Oversland Methodist Faversham Church United Reform Church WW1 Memorial Preston Street Robert Charles GILHAM ME13 8EA 26/09/1916 aged 24
58 Faversham WW2 Book of United Reform Church Remembrance Preston Street Faversham District ME13 8EA
59 Faversham Boughton Methodist United Reform Church Church Preston Street WW1 Memorial ME13 8EA
60
Faversham St Catherine's Church WW1 and Munition St Catherine's Drive Explosion Memorial ME13 8LN
61 Faversham St Catherine's Church WW2 Memorial St Catherine's Drive ME13 8LN
62 Original Sittingbourne Faversham Avenue of Remembrance Queen Elizabeth's School WW1 tree plaque for Abbey Place Private R B GORELY Faversham hangs on the school wall, ME13 7BQ as acknowledgement for his school days there.
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Faversham List of pupils who died in Queen Elizabeth’s the 1914-1918 war for Grammar School Wreight’s School & Abbey Place Queen Elizabeth’s ME13 7BQ Grammar School
64
Faversham List of Old Boys who died Queen Elizabeth’s in the 1939-1945 war for Grammar School Queen Elizabeth’s Abbey Place Grammar School ME13 7BQ
65
Frinsted St Dunstans Church WW1 Roll of Honour ME9 0TQ
66 Lieutenant Frinsted Thomas Edward Geoffrey St Dunstans Church LEIGH-PEMBERTON ME9 0TQ Killed in Action in France Died 11/01/1915 aged 21 67
Lieutenant Frinsted Percy LEIGH-PEMBERTON St Dunstans Church Died of wounds in France ME9 0TQ Died 27/07/1916 aged 29
68 Lieutenant Goodnestone Denys Hardwicke St Bartholomew's Church BROUGHTON (redundant) Died of Typhus Fever in Head Hill Road Burma
ME13 9BZ 19/12/1944 aged 28
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Graveney Memorial to All Saints Church Percy Jack MANUEL Seasalter Road Killed in Action in Italy ME13 9DZ 28/01/1944 aged 22
70 Graveney Trooper All Saints Church Laurence GAMBLE Seaslater Road Killed in Action in France ME13 9DZ 13/09/1944 aged 24
71 Graveney 2nd Lieutenant All Saints Church John Gay FRENCH Seaslater Road Died 16/11/1939 aged 33 ME13 9DZ
72 Hartlip WW1 and WW2 St Michael and All Angels Memorial Church Gratitude to her Fallen In church porch Heroes The Street
ME9 7TL
73 Hartlip St Michael and All Angels Church WW1 Plaque In church porch Who served The Street ME9 7TL
74 Priest Stalls in Memory of Hartlip Sergeant Nigel LOCKE St Michael and All Angels Killed in Action in Church Zululand The Street South Africa ME9 7TL 28/04/1901
75 Hartlip Outside Hartlip CE School Memorial Cross The Street WW1 and WW2 ME9 7TL
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Hernhill St Michael's Church Memorial Cross Church Hill WW1 and WW2 ME13 9JW
77 Hernhill Frederick Sidney HORN St Michael's Church Killed in Action at Ypres Church Hill 10/10/1917 aged 24 ME13 9JW
78 Hernhill Sergeant James JACOB St Michael's Church Killed in Action Church Hill in South Africa ME13 9JW 06/02/1901 aged 30
79 Hernhill Courtenay Riot Churchyard Killed in Bosenden Wood Church Hill 31/05/1838 ME13 9JW
80
Iwade All Saints Church WW1 Memorial The Street ME9 8SH
81
Iwade All Saints Church WW1 Memorial Window The Street ME9 8SH
82 Iwade All Saints Church WW2 Memorial The Street ME9 8SH
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Ref Location Description Picture 83 Iwade Iwade Nature Park WW1 Memorial Woodpecker Drive Dedicated 11/11/2018 ME9 8TH
84 Leaveland Colonel St Laurence's Church Murray Venables HILTON Workhouse Road Killed in France ME13 0NP 20/10/1915
85 Men of Leysdown, Leysdown Warden Bay and Harty Leysdown Cemetery WW1 and WW2 Leysdown Road and ME12 4AB Afghanistan 2010
86 Short Brothers The Short Brothers Shellness Road Magnificent makers Leysdown-on-Sea of flying machines ME12 4RJ Unveiled May 2013
87
Lower Halstow St Margaret of Antioch Church WW1 Memorial Church Path ME9 7PN
88 Lower Halstow St Margaret of Antioch Church WW2 Memorial Church Path ME9 7PN
89 Lower Halstow Wilfred SOUTH St Margaret of Antioch Killed in Action Church in South Africa Church Path 25/12/1901 aged 21 ME9 7PN
90
Lower Halstow WW1 Memorial Window St Margaret of Antioch Harry GREENSTED B.A. Church and of the men from this Church Path Parish ME9 7PN
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Ref Location Description Picture 91 Lower Halstow The organ was installed in St Margaret of Antioch 1948 inscribed with “as Church an enlightened method of Church Path remembering those who ME9 7PN fell in the 1939-45 war.”
92 Luddenham St Mary's Church (redundant) WW1 Memorial Luddenham Court ME13 0TH
93 Lynsted St Peter and St Paul Church WW1 Memorial The Street ME9 0RJ 94 Lyns ted St Peter and St Paul WW2 Memorial Church
The Street ME9 0RJ
95 Lieutenant Colonel Lynsted Henry William Ernest St Peter and St Paul HITCHENS Church Killed in Action at Ypres The Street 1915 ME9 0RJ
96 Lynsted St Peter and St Paul Lieutenant Colonel Church Charles John Roper TYLER The Street Died 04/02/1914 aged 78 ME9 0RJ
97
Milstead St Mary and the Holy Milstead and Kingsdown Cross Church WW1 Memorial Cross Frinsted Road ME9 0SA
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Ref Location Description Picture 98 Brigadier General Milstead William Burton TYLDEN St Mary and the Holy Died through fatigue and Cross Church sickness at Crimea Frinsted Road 22/09/1854 aged 64 ME9 0SA
99 Memorial Tablet Colonel Richard TYLDEN Milstead Son of William Burton St Mary and the Holy Severely wounded at Cross Church Crimea Frinsted Road Died at Sea ME9 0SA 28/07/1855 aged 35
100 Milstead Major H. B. WATSON T. D. St Mary and the Holy who worshipped in this Cross Church church during 1941 and Frinsted Road 1942 ME9 0SA
101 Milstead St Mary and the Holy Cross Church Roll of Honour Photo to follow Frinsted Road ME9 0SA 102 Flying Officer Milstead Michael HOMER D.F.C. Private Residence Killed in Action Minchting Wood Lane Crashed near this spot ME9 0BA 27/09/1940
103 Milstead Memorial on southern Lieutenant Colonel edge of the road by a G H BURGES working yard. Private and 3rd Battalion land Gloucestershire Regiment Campfield 1916 - 1918 Horn Hill ME9 0SD
104
Milton Regis Holy Trinity Church WW1 Memorial Cross Green Porch Close ME10 2HA
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105 1 of the 8 church bells Milton Regis gifted by Mr John DIXON Holy Trinity Church in memory of 4 bell Green Porch Close ringers from the First ME10 2HA World War in 1934 106 Brevet Major George Lake Sidney RAY Milton Regis and Holy Trinity Church Sergeant Green Porch Close Albert George WILLSON ME10 2HA South African War
1899 - 1902 107
Milton Regis WW1 Memorial Holy Trinity Church From St Paul's Church Green Porch Close (which was demolished) ME10 2HA
108 Milton Regis Bowater Organisation Holy Trinity Church Employees Green Porch Close WW2 Memorial ME10 2HA
109 The East Window – a Attribution – memorial to Major RAY of John Milton Regis the 1st Northumberland Salmon Holy Trinity Church Fusiliers, killed at Green Porch Close Magersfontein, ME10 2HA attempting to save a wounded comrade in the Boer War. 110 Milton Regis Old Boys Milton Regis Milton Court School Council Schools Brewery Road WW1 Memorial ME10 2EE
111 Minster The Abbey Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary and WW1 Memorial Saint Sexburgha ME12 2TT
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Minster The Abbey Church of the Book of Remembrance Blessed Virgin Mary and WW1 and WW2 Saint Sexburgha ME12 2TT
113 Minster Harold Kenneth The Abbey Church of the UNDERDOWN Blessed Virgin Mary and RAF Saint Sexburgha Accidentally killed ME12 2TT 25/11/1941 aged 24 114
WW1 Roll of Honour Minster Abbey H. M. Dockyard, Gatehouse Museum Sheerness ME12 2TT who served
115
Murston All Saints Church WW1 Memorial Cross Church Road ME10 3RU
116
Murston All Saints Church WW1 Memorial Church Road ME10 3RU
117
Murston All Saints Church WW2 Memorial Church Road ME10 3RU
118 Signaller Murston William CHESSON All Saints Church Killed in Action Church Road in the Persian Gulf ME10 3RU 07/01/1916 aged 19
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Murston Ronald HARDING All Saints Church Merchant Navy Church Road Buried at Karachi, India ME10 3RU Died 21/09/1944 aged 34
120
Newington St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial Cross High Oak Hill WW1 and WW2 ME9 7HZ
121 Newington St Mary the Virgin Church WW1 Memorial High Oak Hill Chapel Plaque ME9 7HZ
122 Bespoke oak window Newington ledge with individual St Mary the Virgin Church crosses to each of the High Oak Hill Newington WW1 fallen ME9 7HZ (dedicated in 2016) 123 Newington Oak bookcase displaying St Mary the Virgin a leather-bound Church, parchment book of each (Lady Chapel) of the fallen men on High Oak Hill Newington – ME9 7HZ WW1 and WW2 (dedicated in 2015) 124 Walter Edmund JORDAN Newington Died 20/09/1917 St Mary the Virgin Church and Church Lane Frederick William ME9 7JU JORDAN Died 25/05/1918
125
Newington Edgar HALES St Mary the Virgin Church Killed in Action in France Church Lane 01/10/1916 aged 27 ME9 7JU
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Newington Percy MILLARD R.F.A. St Mary the Virgin Church Killed in Action in France Church Lane Died 23/05/1918 aged 26 ME9 7JU
127 Newnham Memorial Cross Memorial Cross Between Newnham and WW1 and WW2 Doddington.
Faversham Road ME9 0BB 128
Newnham St Peter and St Paul WW1 Roll of Honour Church Memorial The Street ME9 0LL
129
Newnham Members of the St Peter and St Paul De Laune Cycling Club Church WW1 and WW2 The Street Memorial ME9 0LL
130
Newnham Peter George HILLS St Peter and St Paul RAF Cadet Church Died 02/11/1941 aged 19 The Street (Added to headstone) ME9 0LL
131
Norton Ash St Mary's Church WW1 Memorial Provender Lane Font Cover ME9 9JT
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Ref Location Description Picture 132 Norton Ash WW2 Roll of Honour St Mary's Church and Provender Lane WW2 Roll of Service ME9 9JU
133 Pilot Officer Nouds Farm Roy A. MARCHAND Private Residence Killed in Action Nouds Road during Battle of Britain Teynham 15/09/1940 aged 22 ME9 0ES
134 WW1 Memorial Window Oare and memorial tablet. St Peter's Church Lists the fallen from the Church Road 1914-1918 war ME13 0QB and 4 from the Faversham Explosion.
135 Oare William Percy FOSTER St Peter's Church Died of Wounds in France Church Road 12/09/1916 aged 21 ME13 0QB
136 Ospringe St Peter and St Paul Memorial Cross Church WW1 and WW2 Water Lane ME13 8XS
137 Otterden Plaque to 4 men from the Chapel of St Lawrence First world war Otterden Place ME13 0BT
138 Otterden In the churchyard a Chapel of St Lawrence private headstone Otterden Place remembering Private ME13 0BT Sidney Charles WOOLLEY Died 09/08/1918
139 Queenborough Outside Holy Trinity WW1 and WW2 Church Memorial High Street ME11 5AG
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Ref Location Description Picture 140 WW2 Memorial Queenborough HMS Wildfire III Queenborough Park Royal Naval Base High Street Commemorates those ME11 5EU stationed at the base who lost their lives
141 Rainham St Margaret’s Church High Street ME8 8AN Note - The town of Rainham was part of WW1 Memorial Cross Urban District Council of Milton and Sittingbourne, until 1928 when it became part of the Medway Towns. 142 Rainham British Standard Cement Visitor Centre Works Riverside Country Park WW1 Memorial Lower Rainham Road Motney Hill Gillingham Cement Works ME7 2XH (1912-1931)
143
Rainham WW1 Memorial Riverside Primary School Council School St Edmunds Way (formerly in Rainham Solomon Road) ME8 8ET
144
Rodmersham St Nicholas Church WW1 Memorial Church Street ME9 0QD
145 Rodmersham St Nicholas Church WW2 Memorial Church Street ME9 0QD
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146 2nd Lieutenant Rodmersham A W J (Tom) THOMAS St Nicholas Church Killed in Defence of Church Street Singapore ME9 0QD 09/02/1942 aged 26
147 Captain Rodmersham Alan John BOWLES St Nicholas Church Killed in Action in France Church Street Died 10/04/1916 aged 20 ME9 0QD
148 Senior Commandant A.T.S. Rodmersham Frances Mary Hester St Nicholas Church DIXON Church Street Died in her country’s ME9 0QD service
02/03/1941 aged 49 149 Rodmersham Village Hall Village Hall (this hall replaced the Green Lane original Memorial Hall) ME9 0PL
150
Rodmersham WW1 and WW2 Village Hall Memorial Green Lane (formerly in Memorial ME9 0PL Village Hall)
151
Selling St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial Cross Vicarage Lane WW1 and WW2 ME13 9RD
152
Selling St Mary the Virgin Church WW1 Memorial Vicarage Lane ME13 9RD
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Ref Location Description Picture 153 Selling St Mary the Virgin Church WW2 Memorial Vicarage Lane ME13 9RD
154 Lieutenant-General Sir Selling Philip NEAME V.C. St Mary the Virgin Church K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., D.L. Vicarage Lane Died 28/04/1978 ME13 9RD After a lifetime service to his country 155 WW1 and WW2 Sheerness and Bridge Road HMS Princess Irene ME12 1RJ Memorial
156 Memorial Plaque Sheerness HMS Bulwark Bridge Road All those lost on ME12 1RJ 26/11/1914
157 Commemorate Plaque for the role of the Sheerness Royal Naval Dockyard in Bridge Road Operation Dynamo and ME12 1RJ the Evacuation of Dunkirk 26/05/1940 to 04/06/1940 158 Captain James McCUDDEN V.C. Sheerness Killed in a crash in France Bridge Road 09/07/1918 aged 23 ME12 1RJ
159 HMS Princess Irene Sheerness Exploded 27/05/1915 Holy Trinity Church Altar, Reredos and Broadway Panelling erected in ME12 2PQ memory
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Sheerness Minesweeping Flotillas Holy Trinity Church WW2 Memorial Broadway ME12 2PQ
161 Sheerness St Henry and St Elizabeth Church W SHIPLEY and J BALL Photo to follow Broadway ME12 2TS 162 Sheerness St Henry and St Elizabeth Naval Brigade Church Photo to follow
Broadway ME12 2TS 163 Sheerness St Henry and St Elizabeth Church McCUDDEN Family Photo to follow Broadway ME12 2TS 164
HMS Vulture Sheerness Memorial to sailors who Sheppey Cemetery died in East Africa Danley Road 1874 - 1875 ME12 3BP
165
Sheerness Sheppey Cemetery WW1 Cross of Sacrifice Danley Road CWGC ME12 3BP
166 Sheerness Sheerness Conservative Club WW1 Memorial The Broadway ME12 1AB
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Sheldwich Memorial Cross St James Church WW1 and WW2 Ashford Road
ME13 0PA
168 Sheldwich St James Church WW1 Memorial Ashford Road ME13 0PA
169 Sheldwich St James Church WW2 Memorial Ashford Road ME13 0PA
170 Sheldwich Lectern and Book of St James Church Remembrance Ashford Road WW1 and WW2 ME13 0PA
171 Memorial Window Sheldwich Lieutenant, St James Church The Honourable Ashford Road Herbert MILLES ME13 0PA Died in India 21/10/1804 aged 29
172 George Edward SONDES Sheldwich 2nd Earl St James Church Viscount Throwley Ashford Road Died 01/10/1907 ME13 0PA Died from illness during South African War 1901
173 Sheldwich Right Honourable St James Church Herbert MILES Ashford Road Died serving in India ME13 0PA 21/10/1895
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The Sittingbourne Avenue Sittingbourne of Remembrance Avenue of Remembrance Trees with Plaques ME10 4DE WW1 and WW2
175 Cenotaph Sittingbourne WW1 and WW2 Central Avenue Originally in Sittingbourne ME10 4AA recreation ground
176
WW1 Plaques Sittingbourne Originally on Milton Regis Central Avenue Memorial Cross damaged ME10 4AA in a storm in 1987
177
Sittingbourne WW1 Centenary Plaque Central Avenue Dedicated 28/10/2018 ME10 4AE
178 Sittingbourne Swale VC Garden Central Avenue Commemorate stones for ME10 4AE Victoria Cross holders
179
Sittingbourne Lieutenant Central Avenue Donald DEAN V.C. ME10 4AE WW1 Memorial
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Ref Location Description Picture 180 Sittingbourne British Korean Veterans Central Avenue Association ME10 4AA 1950 - 1953
181
Sittingbourne Post Office Post Office Staff Central Avenue WW1 and WW2 ME10 4AA
182
Sittingbourne St Michael's Church WW1 Memorial Window High Street ME10 4PG
183
Private Sittingbourne Reginald Bertram GORELY St Michael's Church Killed in Action in France High Street Died 05/09/1916 aged 27 ME10 4PG
184
Sittingbourne Holy Trinity Church WW1 Memorials Dover Road ME10 3EF
185 Sittingbourne Joseph John WARNER Holy Trinity Church Died from Wounds in Dover Road France ME10 3EF 14/07/1917
186 Sittingbourne Holy Trinity Church WW2 Dover Road Book of Remembrance ME10 3EF
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Sittingbourne Holy Trinity Church WW1 Memorial Dover Road Choir Stall ME10 3EF
188
Sittingbourne St Mary's Church WW1 Memorial Park Road ME10 1HX
189
Sittingbourne Baptist Church WW1 Memorial High Street ME10 4AQ
190 Sittingbourne Baptist Church WW2 Memorial High Street ME10 4AQ
191
Sittingbourne Formerly United Reform WW1 Plaque Church To the Served High Street ME10 4AJ
192
Sittingbourne Formerly United Reform WW1 Memorial Church To the Fallen High Street ME10 4AJ
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Ref Location Description Picture 193 Sittingbourne Borden Grammar School WW1 Memorial Avenue of Remembrance ME10 4DB
194
Sittingbourne WW1 Memorial Borden Grammar School 33 plaques for Avenue of Remembrance former pupils ME10 4DB above classroom doors
195 Sittingbourne Borden Grammar School WW2 Memorial Avenue of Remembrance ME10 4DB
196 Sittingbourne Other Wars Memorial Borden Grammar School South Africa 1901 Avenue of Remembrance Korea 1951 ME10 4DB Northern Ireland 1974
197
Sittingbourne Borden Grammar School Old Bordenians Sports Grounds Memorial Pavilion Avenue of Remembrance ME10 4DB
198
Sittingbourne Borden Grammar School Memorial Clock Avenue of Remembrance ME10 4DB
199 Sittingbourne Gore Court Cricket Club Plaque to those that Key Street served ME10 1YT
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200 Sittingbourne National Westminster Douglas A. COLE Bank WW2 Memorial 87 High Street ME10 4AU
201 Sittingbourne Private G E GRIFFITHS Sittingbourne Masonic Died 08/10/1918 aged 29 Hall
7 Albany Road
ME10 1EB
202 Sittingbourne In Storage DS Smith Paper Edward Lloyd Limited Kemsley Mill Employees ME10 2TD WW1 Memorial (Formerly at UK Paper
Leisure Club, Avenue of Remembrance) 203 Sittingbourne In Storage DS Smith Paper Bowater Organisation Kemsley Mill Employees ME10 2TD WW2 Memorial (Formerly at UK Paper
Leisure Club, Avenue of Remembrance) 204
Stalisfield St Mary's Church Memorial Window Church Road WW1 and WW2 ME13 0JG
205 Teynham St Mary's Church WW1 Memorial Conyer Road ME9 9ET
206
Teynham St Mary's Church WW1 Roll of Honour Conyer Road ME9 9ET
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Teynham St Mary's Church WW2 Memorial Conyer Road ME9 9ET
208
Teynham Lychgate St Mary's Church WW1 and WW2 Conyer Road Memorial ME9 9ET
209
Memorial Window Teynham Macdonald DIXON St Mary's Church Killed in Action in France Conyer Road Died 03/05/1916 aged 30 ME9 9ET
210 Captain Teynham Gerard Prideaux SELBY St Mary's Church Killed tending the Conyer Road wounded ME9 9ET at Thiepval 26/09/1916 aged 25 211 Squadron Leader Teynham Cuthbert William St Mary's Church Prideaux SELBY Conyer Road Lost on duty at Sea ME9 9ET HMS Egret 27/08/1943 aged 45 212 Edward BLACK Seaman Teynham Died at Calais 06/11/1918 St Mary's Church Brother of Conyer Road Benjamin BLACK ME9 9ET Died 08/12/1918 Also buried in churchyard
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Teynham Original burial cross St Mary's Church Captain Conyer Road Gerald Prideaux SELBY ME9 9ET Died 26/09/1916 aged 25
214
Throwley St Michael and All Angels Church WW1 Memorial Throwley Road ME13 0PF
215 Throwley St Michael and All Angels Church WW2 Memorial Throwley Road ME13 0PF
216
Throwley Archibald Eugene Harris St Michael and All Angels LOGAN Church Fell in Action Throwley Road South Africa ME13 0PF 04/09/1900
217
Throwley John Edward JERVIS St Michael and All Angels 4th Viscount St Vincent Church Killed in Action in Sudan Throwley Road Died 1885 aged 33 ME13 0PF
218
Throwley Captain. The Honourable St Michael and All Angels Charles HARRIS Church Killed in Action Throwley Road in New Orleans, USA ME13 0PF Died 23/12/1814 aged 21
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Throwley Descendants of the St Michael and All Angels First Lord HARRIS Church WW1 Memorial Throwley Road
ME13 0PF
220 Throwley Edward Thomas Chandler St Michael and All Angels Died in British India Church 16/11/1897 aged 20 Throwley Road
ME13 0PF
221 Albert Charles HAWKINS Killed in Action Throwley in South Africa St Michael and All Angels 13/12/1899 aged 22 Church Albert James DITCHER
Throwley Road Died in South Africa ME13 0PF 22/09/1902 aged 22
222
Tonge St Giles' Church WW1 Memorial Church Road ME9 9AR
223 Tonge Tonge Mill Memorial Park Memorial Park Hempstead Lane ME9 9AW
224
Tonge The Flanders Tonge Mill Memorial Park Memorial Oak Hempstead Lane WW1 ME9 9AW
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The Delville Wood Tonge Memorial Oak Tonge Mill Memorial Park Battle of The Somme Hempstead Lane WW1 ME9 9AW
226
The English Oak Tonge Sailors and Royal Marine Tonge Mill Memorial Park Memorial Oak Hempstead Lane WW1 and WW2 ME9 9AW and conflicts since
227
Tonge The Royal Air Force Tonge Mill Memorial Park Oak Hempstead Lane All conflicts ME9 9AW
228 The Kentish Oak The Buffs (The Royal East Tonge Kent Regiment) Tonge Mill Memorial Park and Hempstead Lane The Queen’s Own Royal
ME9 9AW West Kent Regiment 1572 - 1961 229
“Our Gracie” Tonge Mercantile Marine Tonge Mill Memorial Park Memorial Oak Hempstead Lane WW1 and WW2 ME9 9AW
230
Tunstall St John the Baptist Church WW1 Memorial Tunstall Road ME9 8DU
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Ref Location Description Picture 231 Tunstall WW1 Memorial Village Hall Plaque from original hall Tunstall Road now with flagpole on site ME10 1YZ of new hall
232
Upchurch St Mary the Virgin Church WW1 Memorial The Street ME9 7AL
233 Upchurch St Mary the Virgin Church Clock Plaque The Street WW1 Memorial ME9 7AL
234
Upchurch Stained Glass Window St Mary the Virgin Church WW1 Memorial The Street
ME9 7AL
235 Upchurch St Mary the Virgin Church WW2 Memorial The Street ME9 7AL
236
Upchurch George Willson SELLEN St Mary the Virgin Church Died in South Africa The Street 16/12/1900 aged 30 ME9 7AL
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