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Reference WMO/290279

Address:

St Barbara's Garrison Church

Maxwell Road

Gillingham

ME7 5SG

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • Other
About the memorial: A group of five metal plaques in individual wooden frames. Four memorial plaques have the Royal Engineer badge in the top left corner. The fifth plaque explains the transfer of the plaques. The men did not die in combat but on active service developing nuclear weapons. Transferred from Christmas Island when British Forces withdrew.
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THESE PLAQUES COMMEMORATE MEN / OF THE CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS / WHO DIED WHILST SERVING ON / CHRISTMAS ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC. / THE PLAQUES WERE TRANSFERRED FROM / CHRISTMAS ISLAND WHEN THE BRITISH FORCES / WITHDREW AND WERE DEDICATED IN / THIS CHURCH ON REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY / 10TH NOVEMBER 1968 // 22967580 SAPPER / D. JAMES / ROYAL ENGINEERS / 31ST AUGUST 1957 AGE 19 // MAY GOD IN HIS ALMIGHTY CARE GUARD OUR / LOVED ONES SLEEPING THERE. LOVED BY US ALL // 23700967 SAPPER / M. E. SMITH / ROYAL ENGINEERS / PRESUMED TO HAVE DIED ON OR AFTER / 31ST DECEMBER 1961 AGE 22 // AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND / IN THE MORNING, WE WILL REMEMBER HIM // 22126604 LANCE CORPORAL / D. REDMAN / ROYAL ENGINEERS / 6TH MAY 1958 AGE 27 // A ROAD IS ENDED, A PATH NO MORE TROD, A NAME / IN GOLD, IN THE LOG BOOK OF GOD. GOD BLESS // 23695289 SAPPER / J. GETHING / ROYAL ENGINEERS / 22ND MARCH 1963 AGE 22 // "ETERNAL REST GIVE TO HIM O LORD AND / LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON HIM” //

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