It is my pleasure and my privilege to be project leader and chief researcher for the Dover War Memorial Project.

This began on Remembrance Sunday 2005, and aims to trace and record the histories of Dovorians who fell in the two World Wars.

I believe firmly that all those brave people who lost their lives so that we may enjoy ours today should be remembered forever. Some of them are introduced in this, the first publication from the project. May we honour their names - and remember their deeds.

Beside them are a legion of those who also stood firm: their families who lost and mourned, their neighbours who served on the front line at home, their comrades who returned - changed in body and mind. To them too we remember our debt. To them, and to those who did not come home, this booklet is dedicated.

Remembrance means many things. Some of the stories presented here are historical and some personal. Some are heart-warming, some are tragic.

Every one is moving, and every one underlines the interconnections of places, of people, and of the past and its future - the present. But not one of them could we have known, had not someone remembered.