A Remembrance Service was held today at Teynham Church to honour those from Lynsted with Kingsdown, Norton and Teynham Parishes who laid down their lives for their country in the First and Second World Wars.

Chairman Julien Speed laid a wreath on behalf of the Parish Council.  Cllr Speed and Jacqui Langdon-Bassett read out the Roll of Honour, which contained no fewer than 44 names from our small community.

Let us remember those from the parish of Lynsted who gave their lives in the First World War:

Leon Lorden ACKERMANN died July 1916, aged 32

Thomas William BEER 9 September 1916

Charles Peter BOOKER

Amos John BROWN 3 May 1917

Frederick Percy CARLTON 19 June 1915

Robert Stewart CLARK 5 January 1918 Aged 19

Stanley Monckton CLEAVER 3rd May 1917

Malcolm Philip DALTON 9 November 1915

Macdonald DIXON 3 May 1917

William Charles DRAYSON 18 March 1916

James FRENCH 14 April 1917 and his brother

Reginald FRENCH 10 June 1918

Herbert David GAMBELL 21 March 1918 and his brother

Walter John GAMBELL 27 June 1920

William GAMBRILL died 3 May1917 aged 27

Reginald Frank GILBERT 10 November 1917

Frederick GODFREY 21 November 1915

Albert Edward HADLOW 26th March 1918, aged 19

Charlie HOLLANDS 1st July 1916, and his brother

Frederick Thomas HOLLANDS 15 September 1916

Arthur HUGHES 27 May 1915

Edward JORDAN 31 October 1919 from wounds and illness

Herbert Ewart KADWILL 23 March 1918

Ernest Cecil KEMP 1 March 1916

George LOMBARDY 7 October 1916

William Henry PACKMAN 7 August 1920

Thomas QUAIFE 4 November 1917

John Lovett SATTIN 13 April 1917

William Allan SEWELL 12 November 1917

Elvey Thomas SIMS 28 March 1918

Frederick Percy SMITH 10 October 1916

Charles Alfred TOLHURST 19 December 1914

Sydney Arthur WATTS 1st December 1917

Reginald Douglas WEAVER 3 May 1917

Frederick Walter WILES 21 August 1918