Dover Marine War Memorial

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. 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". 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. The war memorial was unveiled on…