Memorials Located Within the Borough of Swale, Kent

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Memorials located within the Borough of Swale, Kent.

This list of memorials has been compiled by Pat Robinson, Theresa Emmett and Janet Halligan 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

Last reviewed: 30/05/2017 Swale Memorials

Location Description Picture Bapchild – WW1 Memorial inside church St Laurence Church

Bapchild – WW2 Memorial inside church St Laurence Church

Bobbing – WW1 Memorial inside church St Bartholomew’s Church

Bobbing – Maynard Mansfield Knight St Bartholomew’s Church Lieutenant Mesopotamia 28/1/1919

Bobbing – Douglas Harcourt Stevens St Bartholomew’s Church 2nd Lieutenant The Buffs KIA France aged 18 6/8/1918

Bobbing – Christopher Maylum Elgar St Bartholomew’s Church Pilot Officer RAF 15/8/1941 Charles Robinson Elgar Squadron Leader RAF 22/5/1943

Swale Memorials

Location Description Picture Borden – WW1 and WW2 memorial St Peter and St Paul’s Churchyard

Borden – Henry Wise St Peter and St Paul’s Church Lieutenant Royal Navy inside Died of fever in West Indies Aged 23 21/7/1914

Boughton under Blean – Memorial cross for WW1 and St Barnabas Parish Centre WW2 The Street Names of men on plaques on wall behind it

Boughton under Blean – Memorial Cross on grave of St Peter and St Paul German airman Anton Shon South Street

Bredgar Memorial Cross Both wars inscribed with names

Bredgar – Memorial to St John the Baptist Private Ashley Thomas churchyard Goatham KIA aged 24 on 22/1/1879 in the Battle of Isandhlwana

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Location Description Picture Davington - List of the fallen on one St Mary Magdalene & St plaque - First World War Lawrence (1914-1918) and Second Priory Rd, Davington, Kent World War (1939-1945) ME13 7DT

Doddington and Newnham – WW1 & WW2 Memorial cross Roadside / parish boundary Names inscribed

Dunkirk – Sydney George Marsh On outside of former church REKY Died of wounds in now private residence France Aged 25 13/8/1918

Eastchurch – Lychgate dedicated to Lychgate at All Saints Church memory WW1 and plaque with names

Eastchurch – Memorial to aviators Memorial Window All Saints Charles Stewart Rolls and Cecil Stanley Grace. 1910

Eastchurch – Pioneers of British Aviation Opposite church records planes and key events ME12 4DE

Eastling – WW1 Roll of Honour St Mary the Virgin

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Location Description Picture Eastling – WW2 Memorial Plaque St Mary the Virgin

Eastling – John Pettet Military Medal St Mary the Virgin injured in WW1 died 18/4/1923

Eastling – Memorials to Brigadier St Mary the Virgin General William Tylden 20/9/1854 and Colonel Richard Tylden 28/7/1855. Both died in the Crimea

Eastling – WW1 Memorial plaque St Mary the Virgin

Faversham – Stone cross WW1 & WW2 Junction Stone Street and Roman Road ME13 8PR

Faversham – Memorial stained glass St Catherine’s Church window WW1 Preston-next-Faversham

Faversham – Shrine to St Jude Our Lady of Mount Carmel Memorial plaque Tanner Street Matthew and Michael Murphy died on active service WW2

Faversham – Stained Glass Window Awaiting photo Alms Houses Chapel A D Miller South Road 2nd Boer War 1899-1902 Faversham – Memorial to NatWest Bank Harold Magee Market Street WW2

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Location Description Picture Faversham – Plaque WW1 Awaiting photo Rigden’s Brewery Court Rd Faversham – WW2 Memorial Book St Mary of Charity Church Church Street

Faversham – Plaque in church to Captain St Mary of Charity Church Gordon Stewart Browne Church Street died from wounds Belgium 27/11/1914 aged 25

Faversham – Plaque in church to Captain St Mary of Charity Church Donald Knox Anderson MC Church Street KIA France 3/12/1917 ME13 7BB

Faversham – Plaque in church to St Mary of Charity Church Battery Sergeant Major Church Street C J Godfrey DOW ME13 7BB In France 14/1/1917 aged 37

Faversham – Plaque in church to St Mary of Charity Church Corporal J Steedman Church Street KIA near Messines Aged 21 on 1/11/1914

Faversham – Roll of Honour St Mary of Charity Church Church Street

Faversham – Plaque in church to St Mary of Charity Church Lieutenant Colin Knox Church Street Anderson KIA near Mons 23/8/1914

Faversham – Plaque in church to St Mary of Charity Church Frank Andrews Church Street Missing in Action aged 32 Battle of Ypres 22/8/1917

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Location Description Picture Faversham – Plaque in church to St Mary of Charity Church George Frederick Wraight Church Street KIA France 30/7/1916 aged 21

Faversham – Plaque in church to Captain St Mary of Charity Church Thomas Latymer Crosse Church Street KIA 3/7/1916 aged 27 & ME13 7BB Lieutenant Robert Grant Crosse DOW 14/7/1916 aged 22

Faversham – Gunpowder Explosion 2nd April Cemetery 1916 - grave & memorial Love Lane

Faversham - WW1 Memorial wooden St Mary of Charity Church plaques (Dedicated 1922) Church Street Frinsted – Roll of Honour to all the men ME9 0TQ of the Great War 1914-1918, St. Dunstans church which records those who never returned with the letters ‘R.I.P’.

Frinsted – Individual memorial stone to ME9 0TQ the memory of T.E. Geoffrey St. Dunstans church Leigh-Pemberton KIA 11/1/1915

Frinsted – Individual memorial stone to ME9 0TQ the memory of Percy Leigh- St. Dunstans church Pemberton Died of wounds 27/7/1916

Goodnestone – Plaque in church for St Bartholomew’s Church Lieutenant Denys Harwicke The Street Broughton MC Died Burma 19/12/1944 aged 28

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Location Description Picture Goodnestone – WW1 Memorial plaque St Bartholomew’s Church The Street

Graveney – John Gay French All Saint’s Church 2nd Lieutenant Royal Artillery Died on active service aged 33 16/11/1939

Graveney – Percy Jack Manuel All Saint’s Church Wiltshire Regiment Died aged 22 in the Italian Campaign 28/1/1944

Graveney – Laurence Gamble All Saints’ Church Trooper 19th Hussars Died Battle of the Marne Aged 24 13/9/1914

Hartlip – Stone cross with wall behind Outside of school that has details of men who The Street died

Hartlip – Plaque on wall: Priest stalls In the church erected in memory of Sgt Nigel Locke KIA in Zululand aged 30 28/4/1901

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Location Description Picture Hartlip – Memorial Board with names In the church of casualties WW1 and Ww2

Hartlip – Memorial Board with the In the church names of those who served in WW1

Hernhill – Stone cross for WW1 and St Michael’s churchyard WW2 with names

Hernhill – Individual church plaque to St Michael’s church Frederick Sidney HORN – KIA 10/10/1917 at Ypres, aged 24. Hernhill – Individual church plaque to St Michael’s church Sergeant James JACOB – KIA 6/2/1901, aged 30 in Featherstonehaugh in South Africa Iwade – 1914-1918 WW1 War All Saints church memorial with names Iwade ME9 8SJ

Iwade – Stained glass window All Saints church dedicated to 1914-1918 Iwade ME9 8SJ

Leaveland – Plaque to Colonel Murray St Laurence’s Church Hilton 20/10/1915 Leaveland

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Location Description Picture Leysdown – Lychgate to WW1 and Ww2 Roadside on Leysdown Road with names

Leysdown – Statue of the three Short Roadside opposite Muswell brothers & plaque: Oswald Manor 1883-1969; Eustace 1875- 1932; Horace 1872-1917; The Short brothers; Magnificent makers of flying machines

Lower Halstow – 1914-1918 WW1 War St. Margaret of Antioch memorial with names church ME9 7ED

Lower Halstow – Stained Glass window to the St. Margaret of Antioch fallen in WW1 church ME9 7ED

Lower Halstow – A memorial tablet to Wilfred St. Margaret of Antioch South who lost his life at church ME9 7ED Tweefontein, South Africa, on December 25th 1901 (Boer War)

Lower Halstow – "as an enlightened method of St. Margaret of Antioch remembering those who fell in church ME9 7ED the 1939-45 war" the organ was installed in 1948

Luddenham – WW1 Plaque in redundant Faversham ME13 0TH church. Names of employees St Mary’s Church of Ashley Stevens and members of parish.

Lynsted – Plaque with full names, St Peter and St Paul Church regiment and date of death The Street, Lynsted WW1 & WW2

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Location Description Picture Lynsted – Plaque to Lt Col Henry Hitchen St Peter and St Paul Church Ypres 1915

Lynsted – Plaque Lt Col Charles Taylor St Peter and St Paul (formerly of The Buffs) (not war memorial) died 4/2/14 aged 78

Milstead – Blue Town WW2 Plaque to Flying Officer Kingsdown – Mintching Michael Homer D.F.C. Wood

Milstead and Kingsdown – Stone cross with names St Mary and the Holy Cross WW1 & WW2 Church Frinsted Road Milstead NB Kingsdown is now linked with Lynsted not Milstead

Milton Regis – A cast metal plaque on a Holy Trinity Church marble mounting to Major Milton George Lake Sydney Ray and N 51° 21.340 E 000° 44.414 his dog Drummer who died in the 2nd Boer War, 1899 – 1902.

Milton Regis – Men of Milton Regis Cross Holy Trinity Church WW1 Milton (not the original)

Milton Regis – Plaque from St. Paul’s Church Holy Trinity Church – now demolished Milton

Milton Regis – 1 of the 8 church bells gifted Holy Trinity Church by Mr. John Dixon in memory Milton of 4 bell ringers from the First World War in 1934.

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Location Description Picture Milton Regis – The East Window – a Holy Trinity Church memorial to Major Ray of the Milton 1st Northumberland Fusiliers, killed at Magersfontein, attempting to save a wounded comrade in the Boer War.

Attribution: John Salmon Milton Regis – Milton Council Schools WW1 Milton Regis Council Primary Plaque School

Minster-In-Sheppey – Stone plaque WW1 with Minster Abbey names ME12 3QD

Minster-In-Sheppey – Memorial Book with names Minster Abbey WW2 ME12 3QD

Minster-In-Sheppey – Graveside memorial to St. Mary and St. Sexburga individual Harold Kenneth New Churchyard, Union UNDERDOWN – RAF – Road, Accidentally killed ME12 2HW 25/11/1941, aged 24

Murston – Memorial Cross in churchyard All Saints’ Church WW1 & WW2

Murston – WW1 Plaque in the church All Saints’ Church with list of names

Murston – Individual plaque to William All Saints’ Church Chesson KIA 7/1/1916, aged 19

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Location Description Picture Newington – Memorial cross with names St Mary the Virgin graveyard WW1 / Ww2 / Korean War

Newington – Addition to grave St Mary the Virgin graveyard Edgar Hales KIA France aged 27 on 1/10/1916

Newington – Addition to grave St Mary the Virgin graveyard Percy Millard RFA KIA France aged 26 on 23/5/1918

Newington – Men of Newington Memorial St Mary the Virgin Church Chapel Plaque with names of men and year they died

Newington – Wooden cross with plaque in St Mary the Virgin Church memory of Walter Jordan 20/9/1917 and his brother Frederick Jordan 25/5/1918 Newington – Oak bookcase displaying a St Mary the Virgin leather bound parchment Lady Chapel book of each of the fallen men on Newington – WW1 & WW2 (dedicated in 2015)

Newington – Bespoke oak window ledge St Mary the Virgin with individual crosses to each Lady Chapel of the Newington WW1 fallen (dedicated in 2016)

Newnham – Doddington & Newnham Doddington and Newnham share a memorial. The Cross – see Doddington Memorial was built between the two Villages, with the name of each man facing the village he was from.

Newnham – WW1 Roll of Honour St Peter & St Paul Church Names of men with rank and regiment

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Location Description Picture Newnham – Memorial to members of the St Peter & St Paul Church De Laune Cycling Club WW1 & WW2

Newnham – Added to headstone: St Peter & St Paul Peter George Hills Churchyard RAF Cadet 2/11/1941 aged 19

Norton Buckland and Stone - The church font lid records 4 Church of St Mary names remembered OS grid ref TQ 96759 6

Oare - Plaque in memory of: St Peter’s Church Private William Percy Foster REKMR Died of wounds 12/8/1916 aged 21

Oare - Memorial Window to the St Peter’s Church victims of the Great War. Work of F.C. Eden

Oare - A marble memorial tablet lists St Peter’s Church the fallen from the 1914-1918 war, plus 4 from the Faversham Explosion.

Ospringe - Memorial Cross in churchyard St Peter & St Paul WW1 & WW2 Water Lane Names of men for both

Queenborough - Obelisk On road outside of church WW1 and WW2 Names of men and some ranks/ regiments

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Location Description Picture Rainham* - Celtic style, Cornish granite High Street, just outside the with a tapered plinth which perimeter of St Margaret's has the names inscribed. The Church memorial bears 99 names for *The town of Rainham was World War 1. It was unveiled part of Urban District 12 December 1920. Council of Milton and Sittingbourne, until 1928 when it became part of the Medway Towns. Rainham* - The wooden memorial plaque Moved from it’s original site. commemorates the fourteen Now on public display in the men from Motney Hill Cement visitor centre, Riverside Works (1912-1931), who died Country Park, Lower in the Great War. Rainham Road, Gillingham, Kent

Rainham* - Plaque to fallen WW1 Awaiting picture Council School in Soloman teachers and pupils of the Road (closed in 2003, now school Meredale Independent School & Nursery) Rodmersham - Plaque St Nicholas Church WW1 Memorial Names with rank and regiment

Rodmersham - Plaques in church to: St Nicholas Church Individual memorial to Captain Alan John Bowles WW1 Died in Service 10/4/1916

Rodmersham - 2nd Lieutenant A J W Thomas Awaiting photo St Nicholas Church WW2 Frances Mary Heston Dixon ATS Died WW2 aged 49 Selling - Stone memorial cross in St Mary the Virgin churchyard WW1 & WW2

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Location Description Picture Selling - Inside church WW1 plaque St Mary the Virgin with rank, name, regiment, country of death

Selling - Inside church WW2 plaque St Mary the Virgin Rank name and regiment

Selling - Inside church plaque to Sir St Mary the Virgin Philip Neave VC, KBE, CB, DSO, DL, Lieutenant General

28/4/1978. aged 89 Sheerness - WW1 Cenotaph with statue of Opposite railway station an angel Navy, Army, Air Force, Princess Irene, civilians killed in bombing raids

Sheerness - Plaque roll of Dockyard in Roadside bridge Operation Dynamo & Evacuation of Dunkirk 1940

Sheerness - WW1 Plaque to the St Henry & St Elizabeth McCudden Brothers James, Church William and John & Arthur Spears

Sheerness - Sheerness Dockyard Memorial Awaiting photo Minster Abbey Gatehouse Museum Sheldwich - Memorial Cross in churchyard St James' Church WW1 & WW2 same details as plaques inside church

Sheldwich - Inside WW2 Plaque St James' Church Rank, Name, Regt, Date & place death

Sheldwich - Churchyard Memorial to St James' Church Rt Hon Herbert Milles died (Not War Memorial) whilst serving in India 21/10/1895

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Location Description Picture Sheldwich, Badlesmere & Inside WW1 Plaque Leaveland Rank, Name, Regt, Date & Sheldwich place death St James' Church

Sittingbourne - Men of Milton Regis from the Central Avenue original Cross WW1 from Holy Trinity Church Milton – relocated to Central Avenue around the seating area

Sittingbourne - Cenotaph with WW1 names Town Memorial Plaques on wall around with Central Avenue WW2 names

Sittingbourne - Korean Veterans Plaque Central Avenue B Robinson

Sittingbourne - Swale VCs - four individual Central Avenue memorials: Pte John Freeman; Col Donald Dean; Gen Sir Philip Neame; Maj James McCudden.

Sittingbourne - Centenary Stone to Colonel Central Avenue Donald Dean VC winner WW1 – dedicated 2015

Sittingbourne - Plaque Post Office 3 men WW1 Central Avenue 1 man WW2

Sittingbourne - Plaque for Avenue and Avenue of Remembrance plaques to individual men – and Central Avenue (WW2) one for each of the fallen men

dedicated to a tree along the Avenue WW1 & WW2

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Location Description Picture Sittingbourne – Gore Court 1939 – 1945 War Memorial to Cricket Club the lost Members of the Gore ME10 1YT Court Cricket Club (8 names) OS Grid Ref: TQ 88549 64321

Sittingbourne - Only lost masonic lodge Masonic Centre War member ww1 identified – Memorial Private Gwynfred Ellis Griffiths of the Wiltshire Regiment Dedicated December 2015 / 2016

Sittingbourne - WW1 Memorial to men of UKP Leisure Club Lloyd's Paper Mill Avenue of Remembrance

Sittingbourne - WW1 Memorial inside the Baptist Church church High Street

Sittingbourne - WW1 Memorial Plaque an Holy Trinity extra annex – list of fallen men Dover Street

Sittingbourne - Metal plaque inside the St Mary's Church church dedicated to the fallen Park Road from WW1

Sittingbourne - Memorial Window WW1 St Michael's With names High Street

Sittingbourne - Memorial Window WW2 St Michael's High Street

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Location Description Picture Sittingbourne - Roll of Honour to WW1 – United Reformed Church inside the church - includes High Street people who did not die

Sittingbourne - Borden Sports Pavilion, original Awaiting photo Grammar School demolished 2003, new one Old Bordenians WW1 Alan 2004 named after one of the Wilson Pavilion leaders of the rededication project . Plaque inside 'First World War (1914-1918) Sittingbourne - Borden Second World War (1939- Awaiting photo Grammar School 1945) Memorial Clock Sittingbourne - Borden In entrance hall - not original Grammar School WW1 Memorial

Sittingbourne - Borden Individual classrooms named Awaiting photo Grammar School after each of the fallen men WW1 Memorial (2016) Teynham – Individual Memorial to WW2 Nouds Farm Royal Air Force Pilot Roy Marchand (unveiled 1985)

Teynham - Lychgate WW1 & WW2 St Mary's Church

Teynham - WW1 Memorial plaque inside St Mary's Church the church dedicated list of names

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Location Description Picture Teynham - Headstone in churchyard St Mary's Church Edward Black brother of man buried there

Throwley - WW1 plaque St Michael & All Angels Name & rank Church

Throwley - WW2 Plaque St Michael & All Angels Name, rank and regiment Church

Throwley - Plaque honouring St Michael & All Angels descendants of Lord Harris Church who died WW1

Tonge - Kentish Oak memorial plaque Memorial Park to men of The Buffs and RWKR

Tonge - Plaque to 1st Airborne Memorial Park Division Battle of Arnhem with oak tree

Tonge – WW1 Memorial plaque St Giles Church

Tonge - Harding Gravestone St Giles Church Ronald WW2

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Location Description Picture Tunstall - Plaque from original hall now Memorial Hall with flagpole on site of new hall

Tunstall - WW1 Roll of Honour to the St John the Baptist Church fallen

Upchurch - WW1 Plaque inside the church St Mary the Virgin

Upchurch - WW1 memorial Clock plaque St Mary the Virgin

Upchurch - WW2 Plaque St Mary the Virgin

Upchurch - Memorial Window both wars St Mary the Virgin

Warden - see Leysdown