Dover Marine War Memorial

Dover Marine War Memorial stands in the old

The memorial was created in remembrance of South Eastern and Chatham Railway employees who served during World War I. The Railway had 5,222 individuals who served of whom 556 had died.[1]

Standing on a granite plinth is a group of four figures cast in bronze, a sailor, a soldier, a bugler to the rear and rising above and between them the winged "Victory", a woman, holding aloft the "torch of truth".^[1] The memorial also consists of a wall inscribed with the names of those who fell in World War I. Those remembered are the 556 men of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway killed in the Great War and 626 men of the Southern Railway who died fighting in World War II.^[1]

The war memorial was unveiled on 28 October 1922 by

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  View of the central bronze sculpture.
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  The central bronze.
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  Another view of the central bronze.
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  Another detail from the central bronze.
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  A detail from the central bronze sculpture.

Crouching figure

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  View of the crouching figure at the top left of the memorial wall.
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  The crouching figure at top right of the memorial wall.

Inscriptions

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  View of the inscribed wall at the rear of the memorial
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  Inscription at the base of the central sculpture.
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  Another plaque explains the reason for the memorial.

References

External links

• Dover Marine Station Roll of Honour: Background, images and honour roll
• The Dover War Memorial Project; Information, transcriptions, and casualty commemorations for this war memorial and other memorials in Dover, Kent, England
• Unveiling of memorial (Science Museum Group)

51°6′48″N 1°18′57″E / 51.11333°N 1.31583°E / 51.11333; 1.31583