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The
"We Remember" Booklet 2006
 "WE
REMEMBER" 2
John
James, Alfred George, and Nelson Cork
  John
(left) enlisted in Dover during the Great War. Serving in the
Royal Sussex Regiment, he was killed in January 1915 at the age
of 25. His nephew Alfred was 19 when he died in April 1918, with
the Lincolnshire Regiment. Neither has a grave. John is named on
Le Touret memorial in France, and Alfred on the Tyne Cot
memorial in Belgium. John’s brother Nelson (right) died on
active service in Palestine in 1938, aged 34.
Harry
Bates
 In
World War II he served in the Merchant Navy. He was chief
steward on the cable ship “Alert” when she was lost in the
Straits of Dover on 24th February 1945. The son of
James and Elizabeth Bates, the brother of
George
Bates, who was a
casualty of the Great War, and the husband of Alice, Harry was
47 when he died. All the crew of the “Alert” perished, and Harry
is one of at least 16 crew members from Dover.
 Edward
William Gatehouse
He was 5’ 9” tall,
and worked as a blacksmith’s lad before joining the Navy in
1906. He worked as a stoker through the beginning of the Great
War, before being invalided from the “Pembroke” in March 1915
with tuberculosis. The disease was unremitting, and he was
remembered as a small man with white hair lying in bed before he
died at home, aged 28, on 11th September 1916. His
father, Charles, was caretaker of the disused Shakespeare
colliery at the foot of the cliffs. As the railway was blocked
one side by a landslide at the Warren and the other by the
storage of ammunition trains in the Shakespeare tunnel Charles
had to row to Dover to fetch the coffin and then row his
deceased son back for the funeral. Edward is buried in Charlton
cemetery.
 Albert
George Osborne
Enlisting in Dover at
an early age, he served with the Norfolk Regiment. He was
severely wounded and died at the age of 18 on 2nd
October 1918, just over a month before the Great War ended. He
lies in a cemetery at Abbeville, France, a town near the mouth
of the Somme. Born in Guernsey to Walter Osborne and his French
wife Ada, he was the eldest of a family of four brothers and two
sisters.
Note:
Soldiers Died states "Malta" for his birthplace
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