Chatham Naval Memorial is a large obelisk situated in the town of Chatham, Kent, which is in the Medway Towns. The memorial is a feature of the Great...
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recommended building memorials at the three main naval ports in Great Britain – Plymouth, Chatham, and Portsmouth. The memorials at all three sites were...
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Royal Engineers is still based in Chatham at Brompton Barracks. The dockyard closed in 1984, but the remaining naval buildings are an attraction for a...
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recommended building memorials at the three main naval ports in Great Britain: Chatham, Plymouth, and Portsmouth. Identical memorials at all three sites...
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Memorial. Naval casualties who were buried at sea are also commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Plymouth Naval Memorial and Chatham Naval Memorial...
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Jeffery Day (category Royal Naval Air Service aviators)
him was found. Having no known grave, he is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent, England. Distinguished Service Cross Flight Lieutenant (acting...
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Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent. Established in Chatham in the mid-16th century, the dockyard subsequently...
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The Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, also known as HMS Pembroke, was a UK naval barracks that was built between the Victorian Steam Yard and Brompton Barracks...
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action. His body was never recovered and he is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial. The log book belonging to the pilot of the fatal flight, in the...
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Brancaster (section War memorial)
the end of her useful seagoing life in 1940, Vina was requisitioned as a naval vessel for wartime use as a blockship, carrying a crew of 12. With Great...
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England (the Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Chatham naval memorials). The RND committee was keen to have its memorial in London, and proceeded independently...
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Blakeney, Norfolk (section War memorial)
line to Norwich. The nearest airport is Norwich Airport. Blakeney's war memorial is a brick and pebble arch with two granite plaques, one commemorating...
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honour Jack's request, with stops at Canterbury Cathedral, the Chatham Naval Memorial, the hop farm where Jack and Amy met and a couple of pubs, they...
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Memorial Canada Memorial Carnforth War Memorial Cavalry of the Empire Memorial Cavell Van The Cenotaph, Whitehall Chatham Naval Memorial Chattri, Brighton...
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Medway (section Naval and military history)
and the Chatham naval dockyard and its associated defences. The main towns in the conurbation are (from west to east): Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham...
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Blofield (section War Memorial)
war memorial is located in the Churchyard of St. Andrew and St. Peter. It takes the form of a granite cross and was erected in 1920. The memorial lists...
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Bradwell, Norfolk (section War memorial)
Retrieved November 7, 2022. https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/81119 "War Memorial – Bradwell Parish Council". Retrieved 14 November 2024...
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of Kent, England. The town forms a conurbation with neighbouring towns Chatham, Rochester, Strood and Rainham. It is also the largest town in the borough...
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Last Orders (category Chatham, Kent)
Kent Road, New Cross, Blackheath, Dartford, Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham Naval Memorial and Canterbury Cathedral. The title 'Last Orders' not only refers...
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Naval Air Station Chatham was an operational United States Navy airfield from 1917 to 1922. It was first established as a blimp base during World War...
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Blickling (section War memorial)
is an elaborate memorial to William Kerr, Eighth Marquess of Lothian as well as a Fifteenth Century font. There are numerous memorial bronzes including...
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George's remains a naval memorial centre, managed by the Local Authority, and is rich with windows and memorials dedicated to naval personnel. One example...
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Naval Memorial and the rest on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial. Those who died after rescue, or whose bodies were recovered, were buried in Chatham and in...
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Great Lines Heritage Park (section Chatham Lines)
maritime memories in the 2 seas region' project), for lighting of the Chatham Naval Memorial on the Field of Fire, Fort Amherst and signage across the Park was...
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the King's Regiment in 1973. Harvey's name is inscribed on the Chatham Naval Memorial to those with no known grave, administered by the Commonwealth War...
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responsible for the Air Forces Memorial in Surrey and extensions to the Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Chatham naval memorials. Following the Second World War...
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twenty-four cathedrals, churches and chapels, nineteen war memorials, seventeen houses, seven memorials, seven university buildings and seven office blocks,...
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sunk by U-9 in 1914 during World War I, and is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial. Watson was born on 31 August 1890 at Southsea to Eliza V. Watson...
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Tower Hill Memorial – commemorating Merchant Seamen. Located in London Chatham Naval Memorial – One of the three main Royal Navy memorials erected after...
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Chatham Naval Memorial...
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