Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Stone of remembrance
- District
- Dartford
- Town
- Stone
- County
- Kent
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: C1989
Attended by: UNKNOWN
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 40988
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Current location
The Recreation Ground is just west of Oak Road.
Stone Recreation Ground
London Rd
Stone
Dartford
Kent
DA9 9DF
England
OS Grid Ref: TQ 56989 74214
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Stone of Remembrance in the form of a wide tapering plinth surmounted by a tapering stone with the inscription, the whole is set on a three step base.
- Inscription
- TO THE MEMORY OF/ ALL/ FROM THIS DISTRICT/ WHO/ LOST THEIR LIVES/ IN/ DEFENCE OF FREEDOM/ +/ THEIR NAME LIVETH/ FOR EVERMORE/ AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN/ AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Allen, Hubert George
Beven, Alfred Albert
Bowler, Ernest James
Burt, Charles Albert
Butcher, William Henry Ashby
Card, Benjamin James
Colyer, George
Couchman, Fredrick
Day, Charles Walter
Everest, George
See details for all 26 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 118
Served and returned: 0
Died: 118
Exact count: yes
Information shown: initials and surname only
Order of information: alphabetical - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Stone of remembrance
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite
- Stone of remembrance
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Stone and District War Memorial
- WMO ID: 83581
- Condition: Good [last updated on 02-06-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- DARTFORD COUNCIL
- Reference
- UKNIWM www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/conMemorial.16372/fromUkniwmSearch/1
- War Memorials Trust WM2296 www.warmemorials.org/search-grants/?gID=365
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