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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Shepway
- Town
- Folkestone
- County
- Kent
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War - civilians
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 62185
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Current location
On a footpath
WW1 Air Raid plaque
Tontine Street
Folkestone
Shepway
Kent
CT20 1GY
England
OS Grid Ref: TR 23041 36167
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- Stokes Brothers Greengrocers
Tontine Street
Folkestone
Shepway
Kent
CT20 1RW
England
OS Grid Ref: TR 231 360
Denomination: Undefined
- Stokes Brothers Greengrocers
- Description
- Rectangular plaque attached by rivets to a mount.
- Inscription
- THIS TABLET/ MARKS THE PLACE/ WHERE ON/ MAY 25th 1917/ A BOMB WAS DROPPED/ FROM A GERMAN/ AEROPLANE KILLING 60/ PERSONS AND INJURING/ MANY OTHERS.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War - civilians
Total names on memorial: 60
Served and returned: 0
Died: 60
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War - civilians
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Metal
- Plaque
- 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
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- M. Easdown & T. Genth: A Glint in the Sky (Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2004) pp 60-106, 151-2, 156.
- Other website www.leshaigh.co.uk/folkestone/tontineraid.html
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