Memorial details

Memorial type
Board / Plaque / Tablet
District
Dover
Town
Walmer
County
Kent
Country
England
Commemoration
First World War (1914-1918)
Ceremony
  • Unveiled
    Date: 7th August 1920
    Attended by: AIR COMMODORE C L LAMBE CMG DSO
  • Rededicated
    Date: 7 July 1952
    Attended by: Undefined
  • Dedicated
    Date: 7th August 1920
    Attended by: CHAPLAIN IN CHIEF, RAF
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Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
30620

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Current location

Hawksdown
Walmer
Dover
Kent
CT14 7PT
England

OS Grid Ref: TR 37439 49496
Denomination: Undefined

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Description
Rectangular plaques with white lettering under a pitched wooden roof and set on two stone steps. The whole is surrounded by a small garden and iron railings.
Inscription
First plaque: WE PRAY YOU REMEMBER IN THE LORD THESE GALLANT AIRMEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN FRANCE AND WHO WERE STATIONED AT THIS AERODROME APRIL 1917 OCTOBER 1918/ (Names)// THINK, O LORD, IN MERCY/ ON THE SOULS OF THOSE/ WHO IN FAITH GONE FROM US./ NOW IN DEATH REPOSE./ HERE MID STRESS AND CONFLICT,/ TOILS CAN NEVER CEASE./ THERE, THE WARFARE ENDED,/ BID THEM REST IN PEACE// OFTEN WERE THE WOUNDED/ IN THE DEADLY STRIFE:/ HEAL THEM GOOD PHYSICIAN/ WITH THE BALM OF LIFE./ EVERY TAINT OF EVIL, FRAILTY AND DECAY/ GOOD AND GRACIOUS SAVIOUR/ CLEANSE AND PURGE AWAY// REST ETERNAL GRANT THEM/ AFTER WEARY FIGHT./ SHED ON THEM THE RADIANCE/ OF THY HEAVENLY LIGHT./ LEAD THEM ONWARD, UPWARD/ TO THE HOLY PLACE/ WHERE THE SAINTS, MADE PERFECT/ GAZE UPON THY FACE. Second plaque: MAY WE MEET OUR BELOVED DEAD IN THE MOUNT OF GOD, HERE THE UNDERSTANDING/ IS RICH, THE WILL IS SATISFIED, THE AFFECTIONS ARE ALL LOVE AND JOY, AND OUR WEAKNESS/ AND DISHONOURS SHALL BE CHANGED TO THE STRENGTH AND BEAUTIES OF THE SONS OF GOD./ O LORD, OUR SAVIOUR, WHO DOST FEED THY FAITHFUL PEOPLE IN GREEN PASTURES AND LEADEST THEM TO THE WATERS OF COMFORT/ TURN NOT AWAY THY SERVANTS FROM THAT PLEASANT LAND OF REST: WHERE WITH THE FATHER AND THE SON, THOU LIVEST/ AND REIGNEST EVER ONE GOD, WORLD WITHOUT END. - AMEN/ O ETERNAL LORD GOD, WHO BEHOLDEST ALL SOULS IN LIFE WE BESEECH THEE TO SHED FORTH UPON THY WHOLE CHURCH IN PARADISE AND/ EARTH, THE BRIGHT BEAMS OF THY LIGHT AND HEAVENLY COMFORT: AND GRANT THAT WE, FOLLOWING THE GOOD EXAMPLES OF THOSE WHO/ HAVE SERVED THEE HERE AND ARE AT REST, MAY, WITH THEM, AT LENGTH ENTER INTO THINE UNENDING JOY, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD Third plaque: WALMER AERODROME/ WAR MEMORIAL/ YOU ARE INVITED TO USE/ THIS MEMORIAL AS A PLACE OF REMEMBRANCE AND QUIET/ MEDITATION/ THE SEASIDE CAMPS FOR/ LONDON BOYS & GIRLS INC./ IT IS NOT INTENDED/ TO DEDICATE ANY PART OF THIS/ LAND AS A PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY. SITE WAS GIVEN BY MR F W LEITH
Inscription legible?
yes
Names on memorial
Armstrong, F. G.
Bayley, F. E.
Buckley, E. J. K.
Edwards, S. T.
Greene, J. E.
Hayne, E. T.
Hickey, C. R. R.
Hill, R. A. S.
Little, R. A.
Manuel, J. G.
See details for all 16 names
Commemorations
  • First World War (1914-1918)
    Total names on memorial: 16
    Served and returned: 0
    Died: 16
    Exact count: yes
    Information shown: Surname, forename, rank, date of death, decorations.
    Order of information: Surname.
Components
  • Plaque
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Metal
  • Garden
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Undefined
Listing information
Condition
History
1990: Rededication
Costs

Site: FREE

Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
Sponsorship
Private
Responsibility
Walmer parish Council
Reference
  • Unveiling Programme/ Order of Service 07 AUGUST 1920 HELD IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS, IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM REF: K 8847
  • Action Stations - 9. Military airfields of the Central South and South-East - Walmer - Author Chris Ashworth
  • Dover Express - Friday 13 August 1920 R.A.F. MEMORIAL AT WALMER.
  • Westminster Gazette - Monday 09 August 1920 MEMORIAL TO R.A.F. OFFICERS. "I am very glad to hear that you are dedicating a memorial for Walmer aerodrome. Please convey to those of the relatives who may be present my sincere and deep sympathey for the sore loss they have suffered in the death of the gallant men who gave their lives for their coluntry in tghe service to which I have the honour to belong." This was the Duke of York's message to the Countess beauchamp on the unveiling of a memorial at Walmer on Saturday to fifteen R.A.F. officers who fell in the war.

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