| SERVICE DEATHS
IN DOVER
This is the beginning of a list of service
deaths in Dover. It will be revised as we access more sources.
If you have further information, please
let us know. Notes from some service records are
here and a preliminary list of injuries to
service personnel is here.
The preliminary list was based on Roy
Humphreys' book, "Dover at War, 1939-1945". Information in italics is from "Front Line
County" by Andrew Rootes. See also the
different
list from the Diary of Events, Dover Municipal
Borough
1939
|
Date |
Name |
Location |
Notes |
| early November |
one |
Pier Turret Battery |
swept over Admiralty pier, drowned
1 |
1940
|
Date |
Name |
Location |
Notes |
| 27 May |
L/Aircrtmn Reginald Brown |
Shakespeare Cliff |
crashed after returning from bombing |
| 7 July |
Sqn Ldr D C Joslin |
Chilverton Elms |
shot down by Mes |
| 8 July |
F/O E W Mitchell |
Temple Ewell |
shot down in flames |
| 15 July |
one |
Langdon Battery |
huts bombed 1 |
| 19 July |
Flt Lt D G Donald |
Elms Vale |
attacked by Mes over channel, afire, reached
Dover, crashed |
| |
P/O A G Hamilton |
Elms Vale |
as above |
| 25 July |
Henry Sand |
on shore |
of Merchant Navy |
| 29 July |
Pte Charles Hanvey |
Dover Harbour |
dive-bombing |
| 30 July |
L/Cpl Sidney Skeratt |
Union Road Hospital |
injured the previous day with Pte Hanvey
above |
| 19 August |
fourteen - soldiers from Fifth Field
Training Regiment and the Green Howards and
sailors from Burke and Brock |
|
ten bombs dropped around the castle |
| 24 August |
F/O Stephen Rochford |
Chevalier Road |
Blenheim crashed into balloon cable |
| |
Sgt William Briggs |
Chevalier Road |
as above |
| |
Sgt Dennis Brook |
Chevalier Road |
as above |
| 9 September |
Pte James Ellis |
Western Heights |
shell |
| 11 September |
naval officer |
Grand Hotel |
possibly killed, bombing |
| |
nine service personnel |
|
bombing and shelling |
| |
Gdsmn Frederick
Haller |
Western Heights |
shell |
| |
Pte Victor Crook |
Dover Marine Station |
shell |
| 15 September |
Skipper Andrew Roberston Lees, 35, Seamen
William Roy Cherrington, 19, William Jones, 25,
Ernest Stanton, 37, and Joseph Carter White, 33,
and Stoker Arthur Isitt, 20 |
HMT Botanic, Admiralty |
Dornier bombing |
| 27 September |
army captain |
Connaught Park |
shell |
| |
Capt E Lawson |
Dover Harbour |
shell |
| 18 October |
two |
Pier Turret Battery |
shell on Sergeants' Mess
1 |
| 21 October |
sailor |
Granville Dock |
bomb |
| 1 November |
Albert Charles
Skeates |
Dover-Deal road |
shell |
| 14 November |
two |
drifter Shipmates, Camber |
bomb |
| 20 November |
one |
Southern Breakwater Knuckle lighthouse |
heavy waves, drowned
1 |
| 27 November |
Charles Edward Simpson |
Eastern Arm Battery |
shelling 1 |
1941
|
Date |
Name |
Location |
Notes |
| 3 April |
Canadian soldier |
Shakespeare Beach |
trod on mine |
| 24 April |
RAF Sergeant |
RAF repairs, near Dover Engineering Works |
bomb |
| 26 April |
two soldiers |
near Trevanion Caves |
shell |
| 18 June |
P/O S J Hill |
hit hill by Folkestone Road near Capel |
Spitfire damaged in combat |
| 30 June |
P/O J N Whitmore, Sgt Dulley, Sgt Truman |
Admiralty Pier |
Blenheim hit barrage balloon cable after
bombing raid |
| 2 October |
George Bowling, AB RN |
Military Hill |
bomb |
| 1 November |
a sailor and a soldier |
Boys' County School |
during football game, bomb |
| 16 November |
one |
Eastern Arm Battery |
heavy gale, high seas, drowned
1 |
| 15 December |
soldier |
Stanhope Road? |
shell |
1942
|
Date |
Name |
Location |
Notes |
| 23 March |
Alfred Bowles, The Buffs |
Market Square |
bomb, killed by falling masonry |
| 26 March |
Lt W G Worthington |
Temple Ewell Road |
shot ten days previously when he failed to
stop his car on challenge by sentry |
| 3 April |
Surgeon Lt Cdr Robert McDonald Bremner. |
9 Pencester Road |
bomb |
| 5 November |
Flt Sgt S H Spallin |
Admiralty Pier |
struck balloon cable |
| 9 November |
Daniel Lehane, Bert Fowler, Peter Loudon,
Frederick Kelly, Ronald Goodchild, Leonard
Chillingworth, Norman Ballantyne, John Abbott,
William Hutchison, Ernest Parratt, William
Turner |
Reach Road, St Margaret's |
all of
Royal Artillery, 218 Bty, 73 Lt AA Regt, killed
by shell hitting their trench. |
1943
|
Date |
Name |
Location |
Notes |
| 18 January |
gunner |
Wanstone Farm |
shell |
| 27 June |
one WRN, probably Olive Pett, and eleven
servicemen, probably including Bertram Coker,
Ernest Costin, Frederick Gage, Francis Gardner,
Harold Lynch, Denys Matthews, Sidney Spiller,
Frederick Wood |
Market Square/Cannon Street |
shell |
| 4 August |
one naval and George Cutteridge, RNVR HMS
Lynx |
Granville Dock |
shell |
1944
|
Date |
Name |
Location |
Notes |
| 20 March |
Charles Ellis, Harold Turner |
Grand Shaft Barracks |
|
| 13 May |
Edward Thomas Donoghue |
docks by his Air Sea Rescue vessel |
drowned in the docks |
| 25 June |
three, probably including RAMC Alistair
Lamont and Arthur Mason |
Drill Hall, seafront |
shell |
| 3 September |
naval person |
Ferry Dock |
shell |
| 10 September |
Pvt Robert Niesewonger USA |
former aircraft hanger behind the Castle |
flying shrapnel, airburst shells |
| 12 September |
one airman, one soldier |
|
shelling |
| 13 September |
one ATS, two servicemen |
Priory Station |
shell |
| 15 September |
nine, AAA 127th |
by Castle |
airburst shell |
| 23 September |
one military and Harry Hall, Gnr |
Salvation Army Hostel, Snargate Street |
Harry Hall buried St James, armour piercing
shell |
| 26 September |
one soldier, probably Thomas Edgar Cook |
Broadlees, army bungalow |
shell |
| |
Flt Lt Soden |
Frith Road |
returning from medical incidents, shell |
| |
two naval people |
Mitre pub, Snargate Street |
shell |
1- from "Conflict Across the Strait" by Colonel B
E Arnold TD 1982 Notes from some service records are
here and a preliminary list of injuries to
service personnel is here. |
