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    © Imperial War Museums 2026

    Memorial

    Walmer Aerodrome - Royal Naval Air Service / Royal Air Force

    KentFallen 2010

    Source: Copyright KentFallen 2010

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    Current Location

    Hawksdown, Walmer, Dover, Kent, CT14 7PT, England

    OS Grid Reference

    TR 37439 49496

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    Names

    Names listed on this memorial

    • F G. Armstrong

    • F E. Bayley

    • E J K. Buckley

    • S T. Edwards

    • J E. Greene

    • E T. Hayne

    • C R R. Hickey

    • R A S. Hill

    • R A. Little

    • J G. Manuel

    • R. McDonald

    • L A. Sands

    • A J B. Tonks

    • T C. Vernon

    • R R. Winter

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    Type of Memorial
    Board / Plaque / Tablet
    WMR Reference Number
    30620
    Description
    Rectangular plaques with white lettering under a pitched wooden roof and set on two stone steps. The whole is surrounded by a small garden and iron railings.
    Inscription
    First plaque: WE PRAY YOU REMEMBER IN THE LORD THESE GALLANT AIRMEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN FRANCE AND WHO WERE STATIONED AT THIS AERODROME APRIL 1917 OCTOBER 1918/ (Names)// THINK, O LORD, IN MERCY/ ON THE SOULS OF THOSE/ WHO IN FAITH GONE FROM US./ NOW IN DEATH REPOSE./ HERE MID STRESS AND CONFLICT,/ TOILS CAN NEVER CEASE./ THERE, THE WARFARE ENDED,/ BID THEM REST IN PEACE// OFTEN WERE THE WOUNDED/ IN THE DEADLY STRIFE:/ HEAL THEM GOOD PHYSICIAN/ WITH THE BALM OF LIFE./ EVERY TAINT OF EVIL, FRAILTY AND DECAY/ GOOD AND GRACIOUS SAVIOUR/ CLEANSE AND PURGE AWAY// REST ETERNAL GRANT THEM/ AFTER WEARY FIGHT./ SHED ON THEM THE RADIANCE/ OF THY HEAVENLY LIGHT./ LEAD THEM ONWARD, UPWARD/ TO THE HOLY PLACE/ WHERE THE SAINTS, MADE PERFECT/ GAZE UPON THY FACE. Second plaque: MAY WE MEET OUR BELOVED DEAD IN THE MOUNT OF GOD, HERE THE UNDERSTANDING/ IS RICH, THE WILL IS SATISFIED, THE AFFECTIONS ARE ALL LOVE AND JOY, AND OUR WEAKNESS/ AND DISHONOURS SHALL BE CHANGED TO THE STRENGTH AND BEAUTIES OF THE SONS OF GOD./ O LORD, OUR SAVIOUR, WHO DOST FEED THY FAITHFUL PEOPLE IN GREEN PASTURES AND LEADEST THEM TO THE WATERS OF COMFORT/ TURN NOT AWAY THY SERVANTS FROM THAT PLEASANT LAND OF REST: WHERE WITH THE FATHER AND THE SON, THOU LIVEST/ AND REIGNEST EVER ONE GOD, WORLD WITHOUT END. - AMEN/ O ETERNAL LORD GOD, WHO BEHOLDEST ALL SOULS IN LIFE WE BESEECH THEE TO SHED FORTH UPON THY WHOLE CHURCH IN PARADISE AND/ EARTH, THE BRIGHT BEAMS OF THY LIGHT AND HEAVENLY COMFORT: AND GRANT THAT WE, FOLLOWING THE GOOD EXAMPLES OF THOSE WHO/ HAVE SERVED THEE HERE AND ARE AT REST, MAY, WITH THEM, AT LENGTH ENTER INTO THINE UNENDING JOY, THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD Third plaque: WALMER AERODROME/ WAR MEMORIAL/ YOU ARE INVITED TO USE/ THIS MEMORIAL AS A PLACE OF REMEMBRANCE AND QUIET/ MEDITATION/ THE SEASIDE CAMPS FOR/ LONDON BOYS & GIRLS INC./ IT IS NOT INTENDED/ TO DEDICATE ANY PART OF THIS/ LAND AS A PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY. SITE WAS GIVEN BY MR F W LEITH
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Number Commemorated
    16
    Died
    16
    Information shown
    Surname, forename, rank, date of death, decorations.
    Order of names
    Surname.
    Maker(s)
    • WARHAM GUILD LTD, Builder

    • WARHAM GUILD LTD, Designer

    • MESSRS G H DENNE AND SON, Builder

    Sponsor Type
    private
    Maintenance History
    1990: Rededication

    Ceremonies

    Unveiled

    7th August 1920

    AIR COMMODORE C L LAMBE CMG DSO

    Dedicated

    7th August 1920

    CHAPLAIN IN CHIEF, RAF

    Rededicated

    7 July 1952

    Custodian
    Walmer parish Council

    Components

    Plaque

    Made from: Metal


    Condition: Good


    Garden


    Condition: Good


    • Unveiling Programme/ Order of Service 07 AUGUST 1920 HELD IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS, IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM REF: K 8847
    • Westminster Gazette - Monday 09 August 1920 MEMORIAL TO R.A.F. OFFICERS. "I am very glad to hear that you are dedicating a memorial for Walmer aerodrome. Please convey to those of the relatives who may be present my sincere and deep sympathey for the sore loss they have suffered in the death of the gallant men who gave their lives for their coluntry in tghe service to which I have the honour to belong." This was the Duke of York's message to the Countess beauchamp on the unveiling of a memorial at Walmer on Saturday to fifteen R.A.F. officers who fell in the war.
    • Dover Express - Friday 13 August 1920 R.A.F. MEMORIAL AT WALMER.
    • Action Stations - 9. Military airfields of the Central South and South-East - Walmer - Author Chris Ashworth