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Memorial Dover Garrison Shorncliffe

Plot of Napoleonic era graves.
"Erected by
the 3rd Oxfordshire &
Buckinghamshire
Light Infantry
in 1928, to the
memory of 19 men of
the Oxfordshire Regt
of Militia buried in
this cemetery who died
in 1803 and 1804 when on
garrison duty at Dover"
"The gravestones in this cemetery were originally erected by Col. Lord Charles Spencer, restored 1841 by Col. W. Gore Langton and in 1871 by Col. John W. Fane"
"These headstones were moved from Dover to the Shorncliffe Military Cemetery in August 1991 on the instructions of the Garrison Adjutant Col P.R.S. Jackson OBE."

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Source

  • Text: Sharky Ward/Memorial
  • Photos: Anthony (Sharky) Ward