Frontline Britain - Waterloo Crescent, Dover, Kent.
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A memorial sited along Waterloo Crescent at Dover commemorating both service and civilians killed in WW2 in East Kent.
Waymark Code: WMETTE
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/07/2012
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Together with a number of other memorials sited
along Dover's seafront, overlooking the English Channel, this one also
commemorates events during WW2.
"FRONTLINE BRITAIN" is a granite block sited along
Waterloo Crescent along the promenade and has a plaque attached which
reads;
TO COMMEMORATE ALL MEN AND WOMEN,
/ BOTH SERVICE AND CIVILIANS, / WHO LIVED, SERVED AND DIED IN EAST
KENT
"FRONTLINE BRITAIN"
1939 - 1945
THIS PLAQUE WAS UNVEILED / BY
COUNTESS MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA / C.B.E. CD JP DL
26TH SEPTEMBER 1994
Other events were held that day, the day the last
shell from the German Channel Guns fell on Dover before being captured
by Canadian troops.
More details may be viewed on the excellent Dover
War Memorial Project
website.