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The
"We Remember" Booklet 2006
DOVER TOWN AS A MEMORIAL
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There are many
memorials to the fallen in Dover. But Dover town
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The streets are filled with memories of the wars.
Glenfield Road is just one. Here a gap in a terrace
is filled with a pair of semi-detached houses. Three
house numbers are missing in the sequence. A shell
landed here in World War II and five homes were
destroyed. Three generations of one family lost
their lives and this is their lasting monument.
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One of the missing house numbers is 26. This was the
home of James Keen, who was a Serjeant in the Buffs
in the first World War. He died on 25th
July 1916 and is buried in St James’ cemetery.
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Here, like all the other cemeteries in Dover, the
Commonwealth War Graves Commission has marked many
of the graves of those lost in conflict. The
distinctive stones in the cemetery, mingling with
other stones, tell the silent tale of a tragic
history. |
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are special places and times when we gather to
remember the fallen. But in Dover, front-line town,
every walk of every day is an act of Remembrance.
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Simon John
Chambers,
Researcher and photographer for the Dover War Memorial Project
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