Connaught Cemetery and Mill Road Cemetery, Dover

 

2/7^th Bn The Queen's Royal Regiment Graves
The battalion moved from Faversham on the 23^rd February 1941 to Hythe and took over part of the old Small Arms School and Turnpike Camp. The following day the battalion suffered a grievous loss with the deaths of ten men killed outright and five men seriously injured, two of them subsequently died. A Royal Engineer Sergeant was leading the men through a minefield near Hythe when the tragedy occurred.

The men are buried in Mill Road and Connaught Cemeteries in Dover. Four, who had been buried in a church near Dover Castle were re-interred in Shorncliffe Garrison Cemetery when the Dover Church and grounds were demolished in the late 1970s.

Mill Road CWGC Cemetery

   

 

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