What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Near this spot on 26th September 1944 fall the last enemy shell fired from France to land in Kent Recorded plaque organisation: Dover Society.
Marks the location where the final German artillery shell landed in Kent during World War II, symbolizing the end of direct enemy shelling from continental Europe.
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