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Edwin Pover white plaque

Commemorative plaque

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This white commemorative plaque records: This cemetery, with its chapel designed by Edwin Pover (c.1842-1903), opened on 17 May 1898. Here are buried in a mass grave 73 of the 108 victims of the Great Explosion of 2 April 1916. Recorded plaque organisation: Faversham Town Council.

From the Open Plaques record 2106

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