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Sittingbourne At War
General
In time of war, dispatches from the various conflicts are published in the London Gazette. People referred to are said to have been mentioned in despatches. When members of the armed forces are promoted, and these promotions are published here, the person is said to have been “gazetted”.
London Gazette Website
Boer War
Rolls of Honour - Kent - Covers Boer War, WWI, WWII.
WW1 - World War I - The Great War
Rolls of Honour - Kent - Covers Boer War, WWI, WWII.
A Town at War - Sittingbourne 1916 - From Heritage - The Quarterly Journal of the Sittingbourne Heritage Museum
Sittingbourne & Milton Fallen from Local Memorials - Covers various memorials from Sittingbourne, Milton, Borden, Bobbing, Bapchild, Murston, Rodmersham, Tong, Tunstall
Sittingbourne Remembers These pages are dedicated to the memory of the men and boys of Sittingbourne and Milton Regis in Kent England, who lost their lives in the Great War 14 -18
WWI Memorial - Sittingbourne & Milton - Contains the following surnames:
Akhurst, Allen, Anderson, Armond, Ashby, Ashlee, Ashwood, Attwater, Baker, Baldock, Barham, Barnard, Barnes, Barrett, Bartlett, Batchelor, Beecham, Belsom, Black, Blackman, Bodium, Bolton, Bonnett, Bowes, Bray, Brenchley, Brewer, Brown, Burden, Burley, Butcher, Butler, Carrier, Castle, Chapman, Clackett, Coombes, Couchman, Crayden, Croucher, Crow, Davis, Deverson, Dorrell, Doubleday, Downing, Drake, Edwards, Fagg, Fisher, Foster, Freeborn, Gammon, Gee, Goatham, Hadler, Hadlow, Hancock, Harris, Harrison, Henderson, Heuner, Higgins, Holdstock, Hook, Horsford, Horton, Hutchens, Huxted, Irvin, Jarman, Jarrett, Jarvis, Jenner, Jull, Keene, Kemsley, Kidson, Knight, Longfield, Luckhurst, Lucia, Malnick, Mead, Mears, Millen, Mills, Moore, Norridge, Page, Pankhurst, Parks, Pashby, Payne, Pettett, Pilbeam, Philpott, Quaife, Ralph, Ransom, Reeves, Richards, Richardson, Rickard, Rockliffe, Rossiter, Russell, Sage, Sawyer, Scott, Shaw, Shilling, Shrubshall, Simmons, Skinner, Smeed, Smith, Steers, Stickles, Storr, Sutton, Tanton, Taylor, Thacker, Thorogood, Thomas, Tomkin, Tong, Town, Townsend, Trowell, Tyler, Vandepeer, Wakelin, Walker, Warner, Watches, Watts, Williams, Wood, Woodall
WW2 - World War II
Rolls of Honour - Kent - Covers Boer War, WWI, WWII.
BBC - WW2 - People's War - Audrey Evans - Bombing in Sittingbourne
WWII Memorial - Murston - Contains the following surnames:
Austin, Baker, Brunton, Clark, Dawton, Dormer, Gambell, Harding, Jarman, Kitney, Lacey, Murton, Read, Rogers, Surridge, Watson
Sittingbourne Mill History - the effects of the War on Sittingbourne Mill
Spitfire Crash, Milton - 30 Aug 1940 - click here to view full size - part of the Rootschat website
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Borden Grammar School boys killed on active service |
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Taken from East Kent Gazette, 30 November 2011, p.18
Full list of former Borden Grammar School boys killed on active service, named on the newly restored memorial boards at the school, unveiled Saturday, November 12, 2011. Compiled by Marc Stewart.
South Africa: Nigel Locke.
1914-1918: Archibald Herbert Ashenden, William Clifford Bate, Robert Archibald Butchard, James Huxley Cammack, Cyril Robert Dumsday, Dudley Fletcher Goodwin, Bert Andrews Hadaway, William Thomas Hadlow, Sidney Arthur Hales, Frederick Hogben, Richard Luxmore Kipping, Frederick Roger Alexander Nicholas Knollys, Arthur Edward Larlham, Albert Edward Law, Arthur Dunkin Lee, Harold Locke, Percival Swaby Nash, Herbert Theodore Louis Neish, Thomas James Crompton Oddie, James Herbert Coombe Page, Harry Leonard Prior, Herbert William James Pudney, Sidney Harry Rapson, Charles Henry Rayner, George Amos Everett Searle, Philip Augustus Smith, Douglas Harcourt Stevens, Reginald Cyrus Tokely, Bertram Russell Townley, Felix Lionel Townley, William Alfred Tyler, Edward Kingsley Wakeford, George Tarik Wakeford, John Eric Stanley Wakeley, Arthur Bowsher Ward, Joseph John Warner, John Wells Welfare.
1939 – 1945: Dennis Alfred Adlington, James Dutnall Akhurst, Leopold Gordon Alexander, Andrew Armour, Herbert Roland Ash, Terence Barry, Robert Robb Blair, Douglas Arthur Cole, Edward Brandon Cremer, Stanley William Dane, Denis Albert Drayton, William Dashwood Gardner, Albert Edward Gransden, Charles Henry Gransden, Laurence Wilfred Gransden, Ronald Hadlow, Norman James Haggar, Robert Knowles Hall, William Henry Harland, Harry Bruce Hartridge, Richard Edwin Nowell Hawkins, Leslie Martin Herbert, Herbert Arthur John Ernest Roy Hill, George Mainwaring Hills, Roger Leslie Hodgson, Stanley Gordon Hookway, David Joseph Hopson, John Gundy Humphrey, Richard Iggulden, Edward Robert Ingram, Ronald Herbert Jarrett, George Alfred King, Harry Robert Knowles, Harry Lacey, John Finsterbush Lester, Jim Marcham, Paul Chandler Mercer, Noel Albert Monday, James William Morris, Arthur Chenoworth Moxon, Frederick David Lloyd Oakwell, Joseph Vincent Palmer, George Victor Paul, Leonard Joseph Pinnock, Brian Alfred Carter Richards, John Henry Ruchley, Bryden George Seagoe, Colin William State, Geoffrey Francis Stephens, George Henry Stokes, Peter Harry Waghorn, Percival Thomas Wagland, Ralph Buckwolde Walker, Leslie Edwin Gordon Wall, Geoffrey Ernest Richard Westacott, James Alfred David Wildish, Noel Sydney Wilson, Alan George Wood.
Korea: George Bruce Robinson.
Northern Ireland: Michael John Simpson. |
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