90th Anniversary of Unknown Warrior
- 23 October 2010 21:2276298Following PaulB's front page with ours great news about the Heritage Lottery Fund grant, here are some updates. The Unknown Warrior came home through Dover on 10th November 1920, so this year is the 90th anniversary.
Young people in Dover have been busy!
3rd Dover Scout Group and 8th Dover Brownies worked with artist Jonathan Boast to create a stained-glass window design - it'll be on display in Westmisnter Abbey during Rememnrbance. That's the background of the window they're painting above - mind you, it wasn't only the window that got painted....
The window will be of three layers of glass. The central layer will be the design of the panes; they represent the six casualties the young folk are studying as part of the project. This pane is my favourite - it's of Tommy Eaves, who founded the 3rd (St Martins) Dover Scouts, and after whom Eaves Hall, where they meet, and Eaves Road are named. The pane is a collage of images from his life.
Tommy Eaves used to teach at St Martins School, and they've been busy there too! Watch this space, as they say ...
The Dover War Memorial Project
www.doverwarmemorialproject.org.uk - 23 October 2010 21:2676300I didn't realise there was a plaque in the Cruise Terminal....
Been nice knowing you :) - 23 October 2010 21:4576306That's wonderful Maggie and great photos
- Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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24 October 2010 08:4976349maggie,well done.raps. - 24 October 2010 11:0176357Well done Maggie.
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Lincolnshire Born and Bred - 24 October 2010 15:0876392Well done all.
- 25 October 2010 08:0276507Thank you. The picture above by alan is of my youngest, Susannah, and me, on our first ever visit to the graveyards. in the company of Alan and Brian. We're by the grave of my 2 x great uncle, Eddie Crascall, buried at Euston Road cemetery. We believe we're the first ot the family able to get out there - wonderfully, a new cousin we'd found through the War Memorial research, was there the very next day. "Proud of our uncle and great-uncle Eddie", they wrote in the visitors' book.
Simon was there too, of ocurse, and he'd just previously Alan and Brian had taken us to the huge cemetery at Etaples, where Simon found for the first time (probably the first in his family to do so), the grave of his own great uncle, Fred Baker.
Yes, there's a plaque at the former Marine Station area, round the back, to the Unknown Warrior. It was put there by the Dover Society in 1997, and a wreath is placed there when the service of Remembrance is held at the station just before Remembrance Sunday each year. (This year the service is on 9th November, I believe, at 10.00. The British Torch of Remembrance will be there, en route to Brussels from Westminster. (Some people from the Duke of York's go up each year, as it is lit)
Here's the Unknown Warrior coming home - this picture was from the Dover Express, I'm told, and appeared in the Daily Mail. Dover Museum kindly passed it on to us.
There are a lot of war-related memorials in and around Dover, and we're gradually cataloguing them all. They can be found on the Dover War Memorial Project website in the Casualty Index http://www.doverwarmemorialproject.org.uk/casualtyindex.htm - at the bottom of that page is are links to the memorials we've so far found and photographed. There's also a calendar of Remembrance on the site http://www.doverwarmemorialproject.org.uk/Latestnews/calendar.htm (a link from Latest News will take you there too). As always, if anyone knows of more Remembrance events, or of more memorials, please do let us know!
e found a lovely little memorial in Eaves Hall, when we were there with the art workshops. That's on the website too. Memorials come in a variety of forms, not always obviously a memorial. So the sports pavilion up at the Grammar is one, and of course, Eaves Hall itself. The Scout and Guide Groups are currently fund-raising for the hall http://www.3rddoverscouts.co.uk/page2.html
,The Dover War Memorial Project
www.doverwarmemorialproject.org.uk - Brian Dixon
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- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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25 October 2010 11:0576539and not forgetting edith cavell the angel of mons who allso came through about the same time. - 26 October 2010 08:2976671Edith Cavell arrived through Dover in May 1919. There is a bellringers' plaque to her in St Mary's church; they ran a peal of Grandsire Triples while her body rested in Dover overnight. For a picture of the board and of the procession see here.
http://www.doverwarmemorialproject.org.uk/Casualties/MoreMemorials/Areas/Plaquesetc/Plaquesetc.htm
Captain Fryatt also was brought home through Dover in 1919. According to orders issued to the Mercantile Marine, he had attempted to ram an enemy submarine. He was later captured and executed.
The passenger luggage van that carried all three bodies has been bought and gifted to the Kent and East Sussex Railway, and is being restored, also through a Heritage Lottery Fund grant. It will be available to view by the public on Tenterden station, on 11 November to 14 November between 11am and 4pm. It will be viewable afterwards, in various places and, I'm told, can also be used on the railway network. It's been decorated appropriately, and I understand there will be a replica coffin in the van.
Just as extra interest, the gun carriage that bore the body of the Unknown Warrior on 11 November 1920 is also on display, at Firepower, The Royal Artillery Musuem in Woolwich.The Dover War Memorial Project
www.doverwarmemorialproject.org.uk - 26 October 2010 14:2176723Sorry Simon did not mean to miss you outIf any one wishes to see the Return Of The unknown Soldier click on the above link.
- 26 October 2010 15:4776730So much interesting and useful information there Maggie, I didn`t know how to start commenting the other day. I have a treasured book at home entitled `A Pageant of History`, published in 1958. A Christmas present from my parents around 1961, it`s where I first heard of Nurse Edith Cavell, and being a child at the time, couldn`t understand a nurse being shot. How I hated the Germans at that time. Anyway, her judges and executioner`s are dead, gone and forgotten but her name will live on forever. I`ve read so much about her since.Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
- 26 October 2010 18:0876751Colin, I sent round a short time ago, the Newsletter of the Dover War memorial Project.
If you'd like to be added to my email address groups for the blind emails I send round and receive a copy of the DWMP Newsletter, let me know.
Roger - 26 October 2010 18:1976753What has happened to the Photo on post 6
- 31 October 2010 09:1477633Next week St Martins scholl are off to Westminster Abbey, to visit the tomb of the Unknown Warrior. But in the meantime they've been learning some of the less beautiful side of live in the tranches. Kimi and Peter from City of Westminster Archives and our Susannah came for classroom sessions with the young people - suffice it to say that I learnt some ... interesting
.....things. Suffice it to say, apparently one could tell new arrivals at the Front because they weren't scratching themselves silly. When soldiers ran a flame along the seams of their uniforms to get rid of the lice, it seems the lice and their eggs burst ... a whole new meaning to "snap, crackle, and pop"!
It's fortunate the replica uniforms the young folk could try on weren't authentic in EVERY aspect ....!
The pupils also examined original artefacts - here's one of my favourite pictures from the day.
Both pictures are by Mark Cornell, teacher at St Martin's
....The Dover War Memorial Project
www.doverwarmemorialproject.org.uk - 31 October 2010 13:5777701Lovely to see the kids learning, and me - snap crackle pop eh
- 9 November 2010 19:4279343To Day the service at Weston Docks took place it is that time of year when we turn are thoughts to Remember are Relatives who died for this Country and all the young men and woman that are fighting to day, I thank you all and will always Remember.
- 9 November 2010 19:4379344Wrong post
- 9 November 2010 19:4579346Barry W please remove post 18 17 thank you
- 9 November 2010 23:1979398My wife and myself will be at my old school to morrow night with the Dover War Memorial Project.I did play a small part in helping this Project get off the ground,and to see how it is today and the hard work that Maggie and Simon have done over the years with not much funding and the 100s of miles they done my car etc is just great to see, and has done so much for our town and the famileys.
- Jan Higgins
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- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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10 November 2010 10:3479409It was on the local news this morning that the railway carriage that carried the Unknown Soldier has been renovated. I think by Tenterdon Light Railway but not sure as I missed some of the item.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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