Shorncliffe Military Cemetery
The Obelisk
The Remembrance Trust has restored a group of headstones and an obelisk at Shorncliffe Military Cemetery in Kent. These memorials commemorate 22 soldiers, stationed at Dover, who died between 1802-1804. The memorials were originally located close to Dover Castle and moved to the Cemetery of Shorncliffe in 1991, after Dover Castle had been transferred to English Heritage.
The soldiers commemorated on these memorials chiefly belong to the Oxfordshire and Leicester Regiments of Militia. Many of them seem to have died in the Smallpox epidemic that struck 1803-1804. The Obelisk is much more recent, having been erected in 1928 by the 3rd Oxfordshire and Buckingham Light Infantry in memory of their comrades who had died over a century before.
Restored by Steve Davies, with research by Paul Cox
Dedication stone of the Oxford Regiment of Militia memorials Before
Dedication stone of the Oxford Regiment of Militia memorials After
William Barratt and John Pullen Before
William Barratt and John Pullen After
William Smyth and Joseph Green Before
William Smyth and Joseph Green After
William Stringer Before
William Stringer After
William Tyers Before
William Tyers After
John Watts and Charles Salsbury Before
John Watts and Charles Salsbury After
Richard Tagg Before
Richard Tagg After
Edward Norgrove and Henry Cosling Before
Edward Norgrove and Henry Cosling After
Charles Marsham, John Gardner and Joseph Partridge Before
Charles Marsham, John Gardner and Joseph Partridge After
William Jarvis and Richard Beadle Before
William Jarvis and Richard Beadle After