Fifteen young men, lost too soon, their names rediscovered on a forgotten Second World War memorial in Rochester - each one a life, a story, and a promise to remember.
Category: Rochester, Chatham and Gillingham Gas Company Roll of Honour (1939-1945)
Warrant Officer Edwin John “Jack” Aslett
Killed whilst flying - after VE Day, aged 23
Stoker 1st Class Leonard Francis Beck
Killed on War Service in the Mediterranean Sea, aged 28
Corporal Vernon Creswell Best
Died on War Service (of illness),aged 23
Sergeant Sydney James Betts
Killed while flying during a training exercise, aged 34
Driver Douglas Roy Capps
Died of wounds during the Dunkirk evacuation, aged 23
Gunner Keith Fletcher Clifton
Killed in a V2 Rocket Attack on a Cinema, aged 19
Able Seaman Charles Norman Coomber
Killed on War Service in the Mediterranean Sea, aged 25
Driver Robert George Edwards
Drowned during the Dunkirk Evacuation, aged 19
Sergeant John William “Jack” Kearley
Shot down over Germany during a bombing run, aged 21

