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this is my local memorial thing, it dominates the entire landscape, quite moving.

[img]http://www.rossfamily.plus.com/historicmedway/chatham/images/memorialcentre.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.rossfamily.plus.com/historicmedway/chatham/images/memorialside.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.kinnethmont.co.uk/1939-1945_files/thos-ingram/chatham-ww1-memorial.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.kinnethmont.co.uk/1939-1945_files/thos-ingram/chatham-ww2-panels2.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.kinnethmont.co.uk/1939-1945_files/thos-ingram/chatham.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.rossfamily.plus.com/historicmedway/chatham/images/memorialgatesinside.jpg[/img]

The names of 8,500 of those who died in The Great War are located on plaques on the central memorial, which bears the inscription "In honour of the Navy and to the abiding memory of those ranks and ratings of this port who laid down their lives in the defence of the Empire and have no other grave than the sea".

After the Second World War the memorial was extended by the addition of the outer wall, which forms a semi-circle on the side of the memorial away from the town to give protection against the wind. 10,112 names are commemorated on the fifty plaques on the extension