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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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Location Description Picture Badlesmere near Faversham Visited April 2018 – none
found
Bapchild – St Laurence Church
WW1 Memorial inside church
Bapchild – St Laurence Church
WW2 Memorial inside church
Bobbing – St Bartholomew’s Church
WW1 Memorial inside church
Bobbing – St Bartholomew’s Church
Maynard Mansfield Knight Lieutenant Mesopotamia 28/1/1919
Bobbing – St Bartholomew’s Church
Douglas Harcourt Stevens 2nd Lieutenant The Buffs KIA France aged 18 6/8/1918
Bobbing – St Bartholomew’s Church
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
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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
Eastling – St Mary the Virgin
WW2 Memorial Plaque
Eastling – St Mary the Virgin
John Pettet Military Medal injured in WW1 died 18/4/1923
Eastling – St Mary the Virgin
Memorials to Brigadier General William Tylden 20/9/1854 and Colonel Richard Tylden 28/7/1855. Both died in the Crimea
Eastling – St Mary the Virgin
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
Faversham – St Mary of Charity Church Church Street
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
Faversham – St Mary of Charity Church Church Street
Plaque in church to Corporal J Steedman KIA near Messines Aged 21 on 1/11/1914
Faversham – St Mary of Charity Church Church Street
Roll of Honour
Faversham – St Mary of Charity Church Church Street
Plaque in church to Lieutenant Colin Knox Anderson KIA near Mons 23/8/1914
Faversham – St Mary of Charity Church Church Street
Plaque in church to Frank Andrews Missing in Action aged 32 Battle of Ypres 22/8/1917
Faversham – St Mary of Charity Church Church Street
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
Hartlip – In the church
Memorial Board with names of casualties WW1 and Ww2
Hartlip – In the church
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
Lower Halstow – St. Margaret of Antioch church ME9 7ED
A memorial tablet to Wilfred South who lost his life at Tweefontein, South Africa, on December 25th 1901 (Boer War)
Lower Halstow – St. Margaret of Antioch church ME9 7ED
"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)
Milton Regis – Holy Trinity Church Milton
Plaque from St. Paul’s Church – now demolished
Milton Regis – Holy Trinity Church Milton
1 of the 8 church bells gifted by Mr. John Dixon in memory of 4 bell ringers from the First World War in 1934.
Milton Regis – Holy Trinity Church Milton
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
Murston – All Saints’ Church
WW1 Plaque in the church with list of names
Murston – All Saints’ Church
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
Newington – St Mary the Virgin graveyard
Addition to grave Edgar Hales KIA France aged 27 on 1/10/1916
Newington – St Mary the Virgin graveyard
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
Oare - St Peter’s Church
Memorial Window to the victims of the Great War. Work of F.C. Eden
Oare - St Peter’s Church
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.
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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
Rodmersham - St Nicholas Church
Plaques in church to: Individual memorial to Captain Alan John Bowles WW1 Died in Service 10/4/1916
Rodmersham - St Nicholas Church
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
Selling - St Mary the Virgin
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
Selling - St Mary the Virgin
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
Sittingbourne - Central Avenue
Korean Veterans Plaque B Robinson
Sittingbourne - Central Avenue
Swale VCs - four individual memorials: Pte John Freeman; Col Donald Dean; Gen Sir Philip Neame; Maj James McCudden.
Sittingbourne - Central Avenue
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
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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
Throwley - St Michael & All Angels Church
WW2 Plaque Name, rank and regiment
Throwley - St Michael & All Angels Church
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
Upchurch - St Mary the Virgin
WW1 memorial Clock plaque
Upchurch - St Mary the Virgin
WW2 Plaque
Upchurch - St Mary the Virgin
Memorial Window both wars
Warden - see Leysdown