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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
I
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
Photo published in Dover Express and East Kent
News on Friday 22nd October 1915, from collection of David
Borrett
WORLD WAR
II
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  Thomas
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.
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