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| Region : |
Isle Of Sheppey, Kent, England |
| Latitude : |
51.42328 |
| Lontitude : |
0.77183 |
| CWGC Link : |
2063163
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| Sheerness (Isle of Sheppey) Cemetery is situated on the road from Sheerness to Queenborough, and the main entrance to the Cemetery is in Halfway Road. |
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Service No |
Regiment / Service |
Date Of Death |
Grave Ref |
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St Surg |
Liddle, Thomas Dickson
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Royal Navy |
02/04/1915 |
Grave C-C-49 |
| During the First World War the Central Air Office RNAS and HMS 'Hermes' (HQ Naval Wing) were at Sheerness.
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| The Second World War saw Sheerness one of the ports controlling the initial despatch of volunteer vessels to Dunkirk for the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force in 1940.
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| After Dunkirk, when invasion seemed imminent, the port was one of four bases at which were stationed a striking force to deal with an approaching enemy fleet.
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| There was also a Royal Air Force station at Sheerness.
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| Sheerness (Isle of Sheppey) Cemetery contains 128 scattered First World War graves. Of the 38 Second World War burials, 18, all of them Merchant Seamen, are unidentified.
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