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Reference WMO/171916

Address:

Southern House

Lord Warden Square

Dover

CT17 9EQ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Attached to a building/structure
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Plaque to former coastal defence station at Lord Warden Hotel Dover, now Southern House
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THIS PLAQUE COMMEMORATES THE MEN AND WOMEN OF ALLIED COASTAL FORCES WHO SERVED WITH THE ROYAL NAVY AT HMS WASP AT DOVER BETWEEN 1940 AND 1944. THIS BUILDING WAS THEN THE LORD WARDEN HOTEL AND WAS USED AS COASTAL FORCES HEADQUARTERS AND ACCOMODATION. FROM HMS WASP MOTOR TORPEDO BOATS,MOTOR GUNBOATS AND MOTOR LAUNCHES CARRIED OUT VITAL OPERATIONS AGAINST ENEMY NAVAL FORCES AND PROTECTED BRITISH SHIPPING IN THE CHANNEL AND NORTH SEA. MANY GAVE THEIR LIVES AND THEIR SKILL AND COURAGE MADE AN INVALUABLE CONTRIBUTION TO THE SUCCESS OF THE WAR AT SEA. UNVELIED BY ADMIRAL THE LORD BOYCE GCB OBL DL LORD WARDEN AND ADMIRAL OF THE CINQUE PORTS, CONSTABLE OF DOVER CASTLE 10 JULY 2010. WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

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