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: 2/3/2017 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 2 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 3 Swale Memorials 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 4 Swale Memorials 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 5 Swale Memorials 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 6 Swale Memorials 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 7 Swale Memorials 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 8 Swale Memorials 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 9 Swale Memorials 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 10 Swale Memorials 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. 11 Swale Memorials 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.