memorials located within the borough of swale, kent. · mesopotamia 28/1/1919 bobbing – st...

Memorials

located within the

Borough of Swale, Kent.

This list of memorials has been compiled by Pat Robinson, Theresa Emmett, Richard 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

Last reviewed: 25/07/2018

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Swale Memorials

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Location Description Picture Badlesmere near Faversham Visited April 2018 – none

found

Bapchild – St Laurence Church

WW1 Memorial inside church

Bapchild – St Laurence Church


Bobbing – St Bartholomew’s Church



Maynard Mansfield Knight Lieutenant Mesopotamia 28/1/1919


Douglas Harcourt Stevens 2nd Lieutenant The Buffs KIA France aged 18 6/8/1918


Christopher Maylum Elgar Pilot Officer RAF 15/8/1941 Charles Robinson Elgar Squadron Leader RAF 22/5/1943

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Location Description Picture Bobbing – St Bartholomew’s Church

Two individual brass plaques to WW1 men: Albert Henry Payne and Edward Alfred Jeffrey

Borden – St Peter and St Paul’s Churchyard

WW1 and WW2 memorial

Borden – St Peter and St Paul’s Church inside

Henry Wise Lieutenant Royal Navy Died of fever in West Indies Aged 23 21/7/1914

Boughton under Blean – St Barnabas Parish Centre The Street

Memorial cross for WW1 and WW2 Names of men on plaques on wall behind it

Boughton under Blean – St Peter and St Paul South Street

Memorial Cross on grave of German airman Anton Shon

Bredgar Memorial Cross

Both wars inscribed with names

Swale Memorials

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Location Description Picture Bredgar – St John the Baptist churchyard

Memorial to Private Ashley Thomas Goatham KIA aged 24 on 22/1/1879 in the Battle of Isandhlwana

Davington - St Mary Magdalene & St Lawrence Priory Rd, Davington, Kent ME13 7DT

List of the fallen on one plaque - First World War (1914-1918) and Second World War (1939-1945)

Doddington and Newnham – Roadside / parish boundary

WW1 & WW2 Memorial cross Names inscribed

Dunkirk – On outside of former church now private residence

Sydney George Marsh REKY Died of wounds in France Aged 25 13/8/1918

Dunkirk Parish Church Memorial Canterbury Road Dunkirk Swale Kent ME13 9LE

WW1 26 names and WW2 6 names

Eastchurch – Lychgate at All Saints Church

Lychgate dedicated to memory WW1 and plaque with names

Eastchurch – All Saints Church

Original WW1 Wooden grave marker inside the church – to John Kenneth WHISH

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Location Description Picture Eastchurch – Memorial Window All Saints

Memorial to aviators Charles Stewart Rolls and Cecil Stanley Grace. 1910

Eastchurch – Opposite church ME12 4DE

Pioneers of British Aviation records planes and key events

Eastling – St Mary the Virgin

WW1 Roll of Honour


WW2 Memorial Plaque


John Pettet Military Medal injured in WW1 died 18/4/1923


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


WW1 Memorial plaque

Faversham – Junction Stone Street and Roman Road ME13 8PR

Stone cross WW1 & WW2

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Location Description Picture Faversham – St Catherine’s Church Preston-next-Faversham

Memorial stained glass window WW1

Faversham – Our Lady of Mount Carmel Tanner Street

Shrine to St Jude Memorial plaque Matthew and Michael Murphy died on active service WW2

Faversham – Alms Houses Chapel South Road

Stained Glass Window A D Miller 2nd Boer War 1899-1902

Awaiting photo

Faversham – NatWest Bank Market Street

Memorial to Harold Magee WW2

Faversham – Queen Elizabeth's School

Original Sittingbourne Avenue of Remembrance WW1 tree plaque for Private R B Gorely hangs on the school wall, as acknowledgement for his school days there.

Faversham – Rigden’s Brewery Court Rd

1914-1918 Plaque to 5 men who were killed on active service and the 45 men who served from Rigden’s Brewery

Faversham – St Mary of Charity Church Church Street

WW2 Memorial Book


Plaque in church to Captain Gordon Stewart Browne died from wounds Belgium 27/11/1914 aged 25

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Location Description Picture Faversham – St Mary of Charity Church Church Street ME13 7BB

Plaque in church to Captain Donald Knox Anderson MC KIA France 3/12/1917

Faversham – St Mary of Charity Church Church Street ME13 7BB

Plaque in church to Battery Sergeant Major C J Godfrey DOW In France 14/1/1917 aged 37


Plaque in church to Corporal J Steedman KIA near Messines Aged 21 on 1/11/1914


Roll of Honour


Plaque in church to Lieutenant Colin Knox Anderson KIA near Mons 23/8/1914


Plaque in church to Frank Andrews Missing in Action aged 32 Battle of Ypres 22/8/1917


Plaque in church to George Frederick Wraight KIA France 30/7/1916 aged 21

Faversham – St Mary of Charity Church Church Street ME13 7BB

Plaque in church to Captain Thomas Latymer Crosse KIA 3/7/1916 aged 27 & Lieutenant Robert Grant Crosse DOW 14/7/1916 aged 22

Faversham – Cemetery Love Lane

Gunpowder Explosion 2nd April 1916 - grave & memorial

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Location Description Picture Faversham - St Mary of Charity Church Church Street

WW1 Memorial wooden plaques (Dedicated 1922)

Faversham Wreight’s School & Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School

List of pupils who died in the 1914-1918 war

Frinsted –

ME9 0TQ St. Dunstans church

Roll of Honour to all the men of the Great War 1914-1918, which records those who never returned with the letters ‘R.I.P’.

Frinsted –

ME9 0TQ

St. Dunstans church

Individual memorial stone to the memory of T.E. Geoffrey Leigh-Pemberton KIA 11/1/1915

Frinsted –

ME9 0TQ

St. Dunstans church

Individual memorial stone to the memory of Percy Leigh-Pemberton Died of wounds 27/7/1916

Goodnestone – St Bartholomew’s Church The Street

Plaque in church for Lieutenant Denys Harwicke Broughton MC Died Burma 19/12/1944 aged 28

Goodnestone – St Bartholomew’s Church The Street

WW1 Memorial plaque

Graveney – All Saint’s Church

John Gay French 2nd Lieutenant Royal Artillery Died on active service aged 33 16/11/1939

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Location Description Picture Graveney – All Saint’s Church

Percy Jack Manuel Wiltshire Regiment Died aged 22 in the Italian Campaign 28/1/1944

Graveney – All Saints’ Church

Laurence Gamble Trooper 19th Hussars Died Battle of the Marne Aged 24 13/9/1914

Hartlip – Outside of school The Street

Stone cross with wall behind that has details of men who died

Hartlip – In the church

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


Memorial Board with names of casualties WW1 and Ww2


Memorial Board with the names of those who served in WW1

Harty Church St Thomas the Apostle Church - graveyard

CWGC headstone to Frank DINES – died 28.5.1919

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Location Description Picture Hernhill – St Michael’s churchyard

Stone cross for WW1 and WW2 with names

Hernhill – St Michael’s church

Individual church plaque to Frederick Sidney HORN – KIA 10/10/1917 at Ypres, aged 24.

Hernhill – St Michael’s church

Individual church plaque to Sergeant James JACOB – KIA 6/2/1901, aged 30 in Featherstonehaugh in South Africa

Iwade – All Saints church Iwade ME9 8SJ

1914-1918 WW1 War memorial with names

Iwade – All Saints church Iwade ME9 8SJ

Stained glass window dedicated to 1914-1918

Leaveland – St Laurence’s Church Leaveland

Plaque to Colonel Murray Hilton 20/10/1915

Leysdown – Roadside on Leysdown Road

Lychgate to WW1 and Ww2 with names

Leysdown – Roadside opposite Muswell Manor

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

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Location Description Picture Lower Halstow – St. Margaret of Antioch church ME9 7ED

1914-1918 WW1 War memorial with names

Lower Halstow – St. Margaret of Antioch church ME9 7ED

Stained Glass window to the fallen in WW1


A memorial tablet to Wilfred South who lost his life at Tweefontein, South Africa, on December 25th 1901 (Boer War)


"as an enlightened method of remembering those who fell in the 1939-45 war" the organ was installed in 1948

Luddenham – Faversham ME13 0TH St Mary’s Church

WW1 Plaque in redundant church. Names of employees of Ashley Stevens and members of parish.

Lynsted – St Peter and St Paul Church The Street, Lynsted

Plaque with full names, regiment and date of death WW1 & WW2

Lynsted – St Peter and St Paul Church

Plaque to Lt Col Henry Hitchen Ypres 1915

Lynsted – St Peter and St Paul (not war memorial)

Plaque Lt Col Charles Taylor (formerly of The Buffs) died 4/2/14 aged 78

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Location Description Picture Milstead – Blue Town Kingsdown – Mintching Wood

WW2 Plaque to Flying Officer Michael Homer D.F.C.

Milstead and Kingsdown – St Mary and the Holy Cross Church Frinsted Road Milstead

Stone cross with names WW1 & WW2 NB Kingsdown is now linked with Lynsted not Milstead

Milton Regis – Holy Trinity Church Milton N 51° 21.340 E 000° 44.414

A cast metal plaque on a marble mounting to Major George Lake Sydney Ray and his dog Drummer who died in the 2nd Boer War, 1899 – 1902.

Milton Regis – Holy Trinity Church Milton

Men of Milton Regis Cross WW1 (not the original)


Plaque from St. Paul’s Church – now demolished


1 of the 8 church bells gifted by Mr. John Dixon in memory of 4 bell ringers from the First World War in 1934.


The East Window – a memorial to Major Ray of the 1st Northumberland Fusiliers, killed at Magersfontein, attempting to save a wounded comrade in the Boer War.

Attribution: John Salmon

Milton Regis – Milton Regis Council Primary School

Milton Council Schools WW1 Plaque

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Location Description Picture Minster-In-Sheppey – Minster Abbey ME12 3QD

Stone plaque WW1 with names

Minster-In-Sheppey – Minster Abbey ME12 3QD

Memorial Book with names WW2

Minster-In-Sheppey – St. Mary and St. Sexburga New Churchyard, Union Road, ME12 2HW

Graveside memorial to individual Harold Kenneth UNDERDOWN – RAF – Accidentally killed 25/11/1941, aged 24

Murston – All Saints’ Church

Memorial Cross in churchyard WW1 & WW2


WW1 Plaque in the church with list of names


Individual plaque to William Chesson KIA 7/1/1916, aged 19

Newington – St Mary the Virgin graveyard

Memorial cross with names WW1 / Ww2 / Korean War


Addition to grave Edgar Hales KIA France aged 27 on 1/10/1916


Addition to grave Percy Millard RFA KIA France aged 26 on 23/5/1918

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Location Description Picture Newington – St Mary the Virgin Church

Men of Newington Memorial Chapel Plaque with names of men and year they died

Newington – St Mary the Virgin Church

Wooden cross with plaque in memory of Walter Jordan 20/9/1917 and his brother Frederick Jordan 25/5/1918

Newington – St Mary the Virgin Lady Chapel

Oak bookcase displaying a leather bound parchment book of each of the fallen men on Newington – WW1 & WW2 (dedicated in 2015)

Newington – St Mary the Virgin Lady Chapel

Bespoke oak window ledge with individual crosses to each of the Newington WW1 fallen (dedicated in 2016)

Newnham – Doddington and Newnham Cross – see Doddington

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

Newnham – St Peter & St Paul Church

WW1 Roll of Honour Names of men with rank and regiment

Newnham – St Peter & St Paul Church

Memorial to members of the De Laune Cycling Club WW1 & WW2

Newnham – St Peter & St Paul Churchyard

Added to headstone: Peter George Hills RAF Cadet 2/11/1941 aged 19

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Location Description Picture Norton Buckland and Stone - Church of St Mary OS grid ref TQ 96759 6

The church font lid records 4 names remembered

Oare - St Peter’s Church

Plaque in memory of: Private William Percy Foster REKMR Died of wounds 12/8/1916 aged 21


Memorial Window to the victims of the Great War. Work of F.C. Eden


A marble memorial tablet lists the fallen from the 1914-1918 war, plus 4 from the Faversham Explosion.

Ospringe - St Peter & St Paul Water Lane

Memorial Cross in churchyard WW1 & WW2 Names of men for both

Otterden Chapel of St.Lawrence

Plaque to 4 men from the First world war and in the church a private headstone remembering Private Sidney Charles WOOLLEY died 9.8.1918

Queenborough - On road outside of church

Obelisk WW1 and WW2 Names of men and some ranks/ regiments

Rainham* - High Street, just outside the perimeter of St Margaret's Church *The town of Rainham was part of Urban District Council of Milton and Sittingbourne, until 1928 when it became part of the

Celtic style, Cornish granite with a tapered plinth which has the names inscribed. The memorial bears 99 names for World War 1. It was unveiled

12 December 1920.

Swale Memorials

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Location Description Picture Medway Towns.

Rainham* - Moved from it’s original site. Now on public display in the visitor centre, Riverside Country Park, Lower Rainham Road, Gillingham, Kent

The wooden memorial plaque commemorates the fourteen men from Motney Hill Cement Works (1912-1931), who died in the Great War.

Rainham* - Council School in Soloman Road (closed in 2003, now Meredale Independent

School & Nursery) Moved to school to Riverside Primary School St Edmunds Way Rainham Kent ME8 8ET

Plaque to fallen WW1 teachers and pupils of the school

Rodmersham - St Nicholas Church

Plaque WW1 Memorial Names with rank and regiment


Plaques in church to: Individual memorial to Captain Alan John Bowles WW1 Died in Service 10/4/1916


2nd Lieutenant A J W Thomas WW2 Frances Mary Heston Dixon ATS Died WW2 aged 49

Awaiting photo

Selling - St Mary the Virgin

Stone memorial cross in churchyard WW1 & WW2


Inside church WW1 plaque with rank, name, regiment, country of death

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Location Description Picture Selling - St Mary the Virgin

Inside church WW2 plaque Rank name and regiment


Inside church plaque to Sir Philip Neave VC, KBE, CB, DSO, DL, Lieutenant General 28/4/1978. aged 89

Sheerness - Opposite railway station

WW1 Cenotaph with statue of an angel Navy, Army, Air Force, Princess Irene, civilians killed in bombing raids

Sheerness - Roadside bridge

Plaque roll of Dockyard in Operation Dynamo & Evacuation of Dunkirk 1940

Sheerness - St Henry & St Elizabeth Church

WW1 Plaque to the McCudden Brothers James, William and John & Arthur Spears

Sheerness - Minster Abbey Gatehouse Museum

Sheerness H M Dockyard Sheerness Memorial

Sheldwich - St James' Church

Memorial Cross in churchyard WW1 & WW2 same details as plaques inside church

Sheldwich - St James' Church

Inside WW2 Plaque Rank, Name, Regt, Date & place death

Sheldwich - St James' Church (Not War Memorial)

Churchyard Memorial to Rt Hon Herbert Milles died whilst serving in India 21/10/1895

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Location Description Picture Sheldwich, Badlesmere & Leaveland Sheldwich St James' Church

Inside WW1 Plaque Rank, Name, Regt, Date & place death

Sittingbourne - Central Avenue

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

Sittingbourne - Town Memorial Central Avenue

Cenotaph with WW1 names Plaques on wall around with WW2 names


Korean Veterans Plaque B Robinson


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


Centenary Stone to Colonel Donald Dean VC winner WW1 – dedicated 2015

Sittingbourne - Post Office Central Avenue

Plaque 3 men WW1 1 man WW2

Sittingbourne - Avenue of Remembrance and Central Avenue (WW2)

Plaque for Avenue and plaques to individual men – one for each of the fallen men dedicated to a tree along the Avenue WW1 & WW2

Swale Memorials

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Location Description Picture Sittingbourne – Gore Court Cricket Club ME10 1YT OS Grid Ref: TQ 88549 64321

1939 – 1945 War Memorial to the lost Members of the Gore Court Cricket Club (8 names)

Sittingbourne - Masonic Centre War Memorial

Only lost masonic lodge member ww1 identified – Private Gwynfred Ellis Griffiths of the Wiltshire Regiment Dedicated December 2015 / 2016

Sittingbourne - UKP Leisure Club Avenue of Remembrance

WW1 Memorial to men of Lloyd's Paper Mill

Sittingbourne - Baptist Church High Street

WW1 Memorial inside the church

Sittingbourne - Holy Trinity Dover Street

WW1 Memorial Plaque an extra annex – list of fallen men

Sittingbourne - St Mary's Church Park Road

Metal plaque inside the church dedicated to the fallen from WW1

Sittingbourne - St Michael's High Street

Memorial Window WW1 With names

Sittingbourne - St Michael's High Street

Memorial Window WW2

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Location Description Picture Sittingbourne - United Reformed Church High Street

Roll of Honour to WW1 – inside the church - includes people who did not die

Sittingbourne - Borden Grammar School Old Bordenians WW1 Alan Wilson Pavilion

Sports Pavilion, original demolished 2003, new one 2004 named after one of the leaders of the rededication project . Plaque inside 'First World War (1914-1918)

Awaiting photo

Sittingbourne - Borden Grammar School Memorial Clock

Second World War (1939-1945)

Awaiting photo

Sittingbourne - Borden Grammar School WW1 Memorial

In entrance hall - not original

Sittingbourne - Borden Grammar School WW1 Memorial

Individual classrooms named after each of the fallen men (2016)

Awaiting photo

Stalisfield Church - St. Marys - Church Rd, Stalisfield, Faversham ME13 0JG

Stained Glass Memorial Window to 9 WW1 men & 2 1939-1945 war

Teynham – Nouds Farm

Individual Memorial to WW2 Royal Air Force Pilot Roy Marchand (unveiled 1985)

Teynham - St Mary's Church

Lychgate WW1 & WW2

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Location Description Picture Teynham - St Mary's Church

WW1 Memorial plaque inside the church dedicated list of names

Teynham - St Mary's Church

Headstone in churchyard Edward Black brother of man buried there

Throwley - St Michael & All Angels Church

WW1 plaque Name & rank


WW2 Plaque Name, rank and regiment


Plaque honouring descendants of Lord Harris who died WW1

Tonge - Memorial Park

Kentish Oak memorial plaque to men of The Buffs and RWKR

Tonge - Memorial Park

Plaque to 1st Airborne Division Battle of Arnhem with oak tree

Tonge – St Giles Church

WW1 Memorial plaque

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Location Description Picture Tonge - St Giles Church

Harding Gravestone Ronald WW2

Tunstall - Memorial Hall

Plaque from original hall now with flagpole on site of new hall

Tunstall - St John the Baptist Church

WW1 Roll of Honour to the fallen

Upchurch - St Mary the Virgin

WW1 Plaque inside the church


WW1 memorial Clock plaque


WW2 Plaque


Memorial Window both wars

Warden - see Leysdown

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