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    Seems a shame that appears to be the decision. Need I mention the Dover Patrol, the losses of which are commemmorated on the obelisk at St. Margarets? Or the Zeebrugge Raid in which 227 men were killed? Dover was the departure point for many of the poor men who were slaughtered in the trenches, at Gallipoli and elsewhere.

    On July 23th 1914 the 1st Battalion of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment comprising of exactly 1000 men were shipped to Boulogne from the Grand Shaft Barracks where they had been billeted for the previous 18 months. Just three days later they were ambushed at 6am in an open cornfield by German machine gunners near Le Cateau. They suffered 400 casualties, i.e. 40% of the entire battalion in just two minutes. Very relevant to Dover.

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