WW1 commemoration preparations

• Guest 868

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  24 February 2013     18:45217347
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  Interesting to see this brochure from across the Channel, a well written 28 pages of articles. Makes me wonder where the UK are at with their preparations.....
  
  

  

  
  
  http://memoire.pas-de-calais.com/index.php/en/first-world-war/across-the-globe.html
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• Sue Nicholas

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  24 February 2013     19:19217356
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  .On the grape most events will be held in Folkestone.
• Brian Dixon

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  24 February 2013     21:20217372
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  ive been to the v3 rocket site,very intresstung to.a little creepy when you walk around the place,[all underground ].
• Guest 644

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  24 February 2013     21:36217378
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  I hope Dover does something to commemorate the war.
  
  Dover was turned into a massive infantry training camp during the war, tens of thousands of men were dispatched to the trenches from bases at Connaught, the Duke of Yorks, the Grand Shaft Barracks and The Citadel amongst others. Fort Burgoyne became a training ground for the Royal Garrison Artillery for heavy siege equipment. Not forgetting the Dover Patrol, the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Naval Air Service and others. Dover also suffered from heavy air raids of course, perhaps not as badly as Folkestone, but still severe. Soldiers on leave also sought rest at Dover on brief returns to England. It was the last place in England that so many service men saw.
  
  It'd be a great pity if Dover left it all to Folkestone next year. Dover was a front line town in WW1 as well as WW2 and deserves recognition as such.
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  24 February 2013     21:39217381
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  Dover also had this 'claim to fame' in WW1
  
  

  
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• howard mcsweeney1

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  24 February 2013     22:07217385
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  on the building near what used to be the town council offices but now mostly used by bull terrier owners.
• Guest 868

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  24 February 2013     22:10217388
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   howard mcsweeney1 wrote:

  on the building near what used to be the town council offices but now mostly used by bull terrier owners.

  
  
  No that is the last shell of WW2 on the side of the Gateway. The first bomb of WW1 was on Taswell Street
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