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Dovorians - Roll of Honour
Newly begun - a page for
those Dovorians who served at home and abroad and returned. This
includes those who kept the home fires burning.* We're proud of
you.
Let us know if
you'd like your hero or heroine included here.
WORLD WAR
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Warrant Officers, Staff Sergeants, and Sergeants, 2/4th
battalion The Buffs, all from Dover
Top Row: Sgt W H Dyer, Sgt F
Carter, Sgt J Colthup, Sgt D B Borrett, Sgt J J McKeen, Sgt J J
S Gillespie,
Sgt F Oates, Sgt W A H Marsh
Middle Row: CQMS A Wisdom, CSM J W
Buckley, RSM T Holloway, CSM W J Byrne, Sgt W Kemp
Bottom Row: Sgt B Nolan, Sgt G
Hogben, Sgt F Buzan, Sgt N V Sutton, Sgt A Bourner
Sgt John Henry Colthup lived
at River and became a repatriated POW. Married, he lived at
Tonbridge. He was captured 21 March 1918, and demobbed 16 March
1919, when he lived at 99 Quarry Hill, Tonbridge
Sgt Daniel Bernard Borett was a clerk, from Charlton, Dover,
born in 1892 and aged 22 when he enlisted. He served in the East
Lancs Regiment and in The Buffs, under numbers 208892 and 2972,
Corporal 2/4, He lived at 8 Granville Street when he was
demobbed on 4 March 1919, and his next-of-kin, his father,
Bernard George Borrett, at 39(?) Balfour Road, Dover
Photo published in Dover Express and East Kent
News on Friday 22nd October 1915, from collection of David
Borrett
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Henry Boucher Coombe, the son of Ernest Boucher
Coombe, on the town memorial, was born in July 1900. In
civilian life a baker, he was deemed to have enlisted in
Canterbury on 19th July 1918, and was called for service
on 27th July 1918. He would have preferred the Army
Service Corps or the Royal Field Artillery, but was sent
to the 51st battalion of the Rifle Brigade, as 62162. He
was posted on 31st August 1918, and discharged on 3rd
April 1920.
His next of kin was his brother, Harold Fred, and then
his foster mother, Mrs Verrier, of 24 Stone Hall, Lydden,
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Charles William Cloke. He died after a short illness on
Sunday 19 June 1921 at 2 Seaview Terrace, Bunker's Hill. He
was 37, and the husband of Mabel Cloke, who later became
Mrs Jarvis. He was buried in 3J 26 at Charlton on 25th
June.
He had served throughout the Great War in the Machine
Gun Corps, and had also served in The Buffs.
"Goodnight dear, until the day break. At rest" -
inscription on his headstone.
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J T Sheehy, an ex-Guardsman was blinded in the
Great War. He died on 21 May 1939,aged 61. He had been
well-known at the Dover Branch of the British Legion
ref 132/57 |
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Capt C T Wilson, holder of the DSC for
mine-laying with the Dover Patrol off the Belgian coast
in 1917, died on 30 May 1939, aged 58
ref 132/57 |
WORLD WAR
II
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John Laws was born on 19th November 1916. From
Union Road, he left with his case to join the army on
21st November
 1934. Serving in the Buffs and originally
stationed at Canterbury, he was shot in El Alamein, and
returned to a hospital at Leatherhead. He then lodged
with his parents at 2 McDonald Road, in Dover, before
staying with his sister and her husband (Dick and
Dorothy Fisher) at Prioress Walk. They were bombed out
on 20th March 1944, and went to live temporarily
opposite the Buckland Hospital in Union Road (now Coombe
Valley Road).
On 19th April 1952 he married Winifred Mary Manuel, and
they had one child, Sally Ann, born on 25th January
1963. He died on 13th November 1975.
with thanks to Sally Beedon |
Frederick Gurnsey was born on 17th February 1917.
His survived three perilous weeks before arriving in
Ceylon after his
Escape from Singapore, February 1942
with thanks to Paul
Willis |
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HMS Lynx, Dover
With the Duchess of Kent, second from
right on front row
Dover - Gertrude Whitehead is in the
back row, third from right
pictures courtesy Richard
Stanley |
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John William Adams
From Ilford in Essex and four feet nine1/2 inches
tall, he served as a bandsman (stretcher-bearer) with
the Dorsetshire Regiment under 5722597, and was
Mentioned in Dispatches when he and a colleague
recovered a comrade under fire in the field. He had
joined up on 20 April 1926 in Warley at the age of 15
years and six months, and passed as a stretcher bearer
in Dover on 29 November 1934. He saw service in Malta,
Egypt, Palestine, and India. He
married in Dover in 1937 when stationed at the Grand
Shaft barracks
 
images courtesy Pat
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*Note: Lena Ford, who wrote in
1914 the words to the well-known patriotic song of the Great
War, of which the chorus is "Keep the Home Fires Burning",
became a civilian casualty. On 7 March 1918, while living at
Maida Vale, she and her son Walter were killed by a bomb which
fell on Warrington Crescent during a raid on London.
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